Mel Kohn, M.D., M.P.H. is the medical director for Adult Vaccines at Merck Pharmaceuticals. Previously he served as director for the State Public Health Division and State Health Officer at the Oregon Health Authority. He has worked in the public health sector since 1993, including two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previously, Dr. Kohn was Medical Director for a Section of the Louisiana Office of Public Health in New Orleans, where he was also an assistant professor of Pediatrics at Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Kohn received a B.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Yale (1981), took pre-med courses at Columbia University, received his M.D. from Harvard (1990), and received his Masters in Public Health (M.P.H) from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (1997). He completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital in Boston, completed a preventive medicine residency at Oregon Health and Sciences University, and is board-certified in pediatrics and preventive medicine.
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