NVAC Public Member | Term: 2/10/2022 – 2/9/2026
Dr. Duchin is currently the Health Officer for Public Health — Seattle & King County, and the Chief of the Department’s Communicable Disease Epidemiology & Immunization Section. He has long-term experience in various aspects of public health immunization programs, including vaccine hesitancy, vaccine delivery and supply, and risk communication, as well as in national level committee and advisory body work.
Dr. Duchin trained as a Medical Epidemiologist in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and Preventive Medicine Residency program and worked for the CDC before joining Public Health – Seattle & King County. Dr. Duchin did his internal medicine training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, fellowship in general internal medicine and emergency medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and infectious disease subspecialty training at the University of Washington.
He has served in numerous local and national leadership positions, including as a member of the CDC's Board of Scientific Counselors and the US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the National Academy of Medicine's (NAM) Forum on Microbial Threats, and the NAMs Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness, and co-chaired the Institute of Medicine's Workshop Series (Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness) on pandemic influenza vaccine and the National Quality Forum's Adult Immunization Committee. Dr. Duchin has served as Chair of the Public Health Committee and of the Bio-emergencies Task Force for the Infectious Disease Society of America and was a member of the US Department of Health and Human Services "Tiger Team" providing in-country consultation with the Government of Greece on public health preparations for the 2004 Olympics.
Dr. Duchin is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America and holds appointments as Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. Dr. Duchin’s peer review publications and research interests focus on communicable diseases of public health significance, including publications related to innovative local immunization program work and vaccine-preventable disease outbreak response.
