Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Kawsar Talaat is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She attended the University of Washington and the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She then went to the NIH for her Infectious Disease Fellowship, where she worked in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases. Dr. Talaat joined the Center for Immunization Research at JHSPH in 2007 and was awarded the inaugural Clayton D. Harro Faculty Development Chair in Vaccine Science, Infectious Disease, and International Health from 2018-2021. She has served as the Principal Investigator for many vaccine clinical trials, as well as controlled human infection studies for enteric and respiratory pathogens. Dr. Talaat is the Johns Hopkins site PI for the CDC’s Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment Project and has served on the most recent WHO SAGE Influenza vaccine working group. She also serves on numerous safety and monitoring committees for studies evaluating novel vaccines.