Mr Pedro Moro | Epidemiologist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Pedro Moro is a medical epidemiologist with the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System (VAERS) Project and Response Team at the Immunization Safety Office (ISO) at CDC. His work involves the surveillance of adverse events following vaccination using the VAERS system. He particularly concentrates in the safety of rabies, pertussis containing, cell-based and recombinant influenza vaccines, and high-dose trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine. He also leads many activities in safety monitoring of vaccines in pregnant women which has resulted in several publications that looked at the safety of seasonal inactivated influenza vaccines, Tdap, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, and Meningococcal vaccines in pregnancy. Dr. Moro is originally from Peru where he graduated from Universidad Cayetano Heredia medical school in Lima. In 2000, he received his Masters of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.