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It's Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, as part of our series on vaccines, we focus on vaccine safety.

Professor Dan Salman is the director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health.

He joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about the science and oversight of vaccine safety in

the United States and using new technologies to improve vaccine safety in the future.

Let's listen.

Professor Dan Salman, thank you so much for joining me today in Public Health on

call to talk about vaccine safety.

It's a pleasure, Dr. Sharfstein.

Thank you.

I want to start with a question about the science of vaccine safety.

You are the director of the Institute on Vaccine Safety,

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. If you were explaining the science behind what

you do, where would you start? Well, a tremendous amount is done in vaccine safety from the time

people think of developing a candidate vaccine and all the testing

through animals and laboratory and clinical trials.

And then a lot is done once a vaccine is licensed, once it's used in millions of people.

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