Dr. Straus’ team oversees global clinical safety for investigational products as well as post-licensure safety monitoring and assessment for the Merck portfolio in vaccines and infectious disease therapeutics. He is trained as an internist, gastroenterologist, and epidemiologist. He is actively involved in human research subject protection, and a member of US Health & Human Services Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Proion (SACHRP), as well as in professional groups working in infectious disease and pharmacoepidemiology.