Dr David Goldblatt

Elliman Letter

"Four of the medical experts advising the Government on whether the new meningitis C vaccine is safe have links to one or more of the drug companies that produce it......Professor Janet Darbyshire, a member of the Government's Committee on Safety of Medicines, had received support for academic research from US firms Wyeth and Chiron, who produce the two main meningitis products being used on children in Britain....three members of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation had declared interests in vaccine manufacturers...Dr David Goldblatt of the Institute of Child Health, has served on an expert advisory panel for Wyeth and received research grants from Wyeth and North American Vaccines, which produces a third meningitis C drug to be introduced this year. Another, Professor Keith Cartwright of the University of Bristol, received funding from the drug industry to 'evaluate candidate meningicoccal vaccines'. "--Martin Bright and Tracy McVeigh,  Sunday Observer, UK September 3, 2000

"A Parliamentary Written Question by Mrs. Ann Winterton MP in May 1999 confirmed the following declared interests within the JCVI membership (NB - the PWQ related only to a limited range of pharmaceuticals companies, so the full list will be greater than this): Professor Lewis Ritchie (Glaxo Wellcome), Dr. Barbara Bannister (Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham),  Dr. David Goldblatt (SmithKline Beecham), Dr. Diana Walford (Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham), Professor Roy Anderson (Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham), Dr. Karl Nicholson (Glaxo Wellcome)"--David Thrower Flawed UK Regulatory and Monitoring Systems (2001)

Professor David Goldblatt http://www.advisorybodies.doh.gov.uk/jcvi/members.htm
PROFESSION/TITLE:
PROFESSOR OF VACCINOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY and DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH and GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL, LONDON
PERSONAL INTERESTS:
 Consultancies  Fee-paid work Shareholdings Other
Occasional member of expert panels for Gloaxo SmithKline Biologicals, Wyeth Lederle Vaccines and Pasteur Merieux Connaught Produced a clinical expert report on meningococcal C conjugate vaccine produced by Wyeth Vaccines.

Produced expert reports for GSK on MMR up to March 2003

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NON-PERSONAL INTERESTS:
Fellowships Industrial support Other
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