Christina A. Rostad, MD
Director of the Emory Children's Center - Vaccine Research Clinic
Email: christina.rostad@emory.edu
Dr. Christina A. Rostad is the Director of the Emory Children’s Center - Vaccine Research Clinic. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and an Attending Physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She performed her undergraduate studies in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and she completed her medical degree, residency, and fellowship training at Emory University School of Medicine. In 2016, she joined the faculty at Emory University after receiving an Atlanta Pediatric Scholars award sponsored by The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Emory+Children’s Pediatric Institute.
Dr. Rostad’s research interests focus on vaccine design and development, from pre-clinical design and testing to clinical trials. She is an investigator in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit (VTEU) at Emory University School of Medicine and has served as an investigator on multiple VTEU and industry-sponsored clinical trials, including the Moderna mRNA-1273 phase 1 and 3 trials, Janssen Ad26.COV2.S phase 3 trial, Pfizer BNT162b2 phase 3 pediatric trial, and the DMID 21-0012 Mix-and-match study evaluating heterologous and homologous COVID-19 booster vaccines. Dr. Rostad also has a translational laboratory, where she has developed patented RSV vaccine technology and studied immunity to pediatric respiratory viral pathogens, including RSV and SARS-CoV-2. The fundamental goal of her work is to develop safe and effective vaccines that prevent infectious diseases and protect child health.