Lance E RODEWALD， M.D.

Senior Advisor, National Immunization Program

Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC).

Dr. Rodewald is Medical Officer and Senior Advisor with the National Immunization Program of China CDC, a position he has held since 2018. From 2012 through 2017 he served as the team lead for the Expanded Program on Immunization in the World Health Organization China Country Office. For the 17 previous years, Dr. Rodewald served with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Immunization Services Division, which administers the public-sector U.S. immunization program - initially as Associate Director for Science, and from 2000 to 2012 as Director. His long-time research interest has been on improving children’s access to vaccines.

He received his medical degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and trained in pediatrics at the University of Virginia and the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine and Dentistry. 

He is a recipient of the U.S. CDC National Immunization Program’s Phil Horne Award in 1999, the Association of State and Territorial Health Official’s National Excellence in Public Health Award in 2005, the Southern Illinois University Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2012, was a finalist for the 2012 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal, and received the Quancheng Friendship Award from the government of Jinan, China for strengthening public health in Jinan, 2015. He is special senior advisor to the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association’s First Vaccination and Immunization Professional Branch.