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Brian S. Hooker, Ph.D., is the Chief Scientific Officer at Children’s Health Defense, an organization committed to the best health for children in the U.S. and worldwide. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Biology at Simpson University in Redding, California, where he specialized in microbiology and biotechnology. Dr. Hooker coauthored, with Robert F. Kennedy…

Brian S. Hooker, Ph.D., is the Chief Scientific Officer at Children’s Health Defense, an organization committed to the best health for children in the U.S. and worldwide. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Biology at Simpson University in Redding, California, where he specialized in microbiology and biotechnology. Dr. Hooker coauthored, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the New York Times best-selling book Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak. In 1985, Dr. Hooker earned his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California. He earned his Master of Science degree in 1988 and his doctorate in 1990, both in biochemical engineering, from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Brian Hooker has many accomplishments to his credit, including co-inventor for five patents, recipient of the Battelle Entrepreneurial Award in 2001, and a Federal Laboratory Consortium Recognition Award in 1999 for his work on “Reactive Transport in 3-Dimensions.” The breadth of Hooker’s over 75 science and engineering papers have been published in internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Hooker has been active in vaccine safety since 2001 and has a 27-year-old son with autism. In 2013 and 2014, Dr. Hooker worked with the CDC Whistleblower, Dr. William Thompson, to expose fraud and corruption within vaccine safety research in the CDC, which led to the release of over 10,000 pages of documents.

Heather Ray

Heather Ray joined the Science and Research Department at Children’s Health Defense in January 2022. She is a science and research analyst and also manages the department's administrative duties. Heather contributes to the CHD science department through research, analysis, writing, editing and administrative assistance. She is honored to collaborate with remarkable CHD colleagues, partnering on…

Heather Ray joined the Science and Research Department at Children’s Health Defense in January 2022. She is a science and research analyst and also manages the department's administrative duties. Heather contributes to the CHD science department through research, analysis, writing, editing and administrative assistance. She is honored to collaborate with remarkable CHD colleagues, partnering on published scientific research and writing projects on vaccine safety, childhood health, and medical freedom. Prior to her employment at CHD, Heather was a licensed massage therapist for over 15 years, focusing on therapeutic massage, pain management and palliative care for patients suffering from debilitating medical conditions. She also holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Florida. Heather is passionate about being a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves. She has been a strong advocate for children in her community, promoting freedom against medical mandates within the public school system. She has also advocated in public forums for her son, who has Down syndrome, and his rights under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA). Heather is a devoted mother of five amazing children and the wife of a wonderful husband.

Karl Jablonowski

Dr. Jablonowski earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of Washington and was honored with three fellowships from the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and Children’s Health Defense. He believes “scientific integrity” has lately become an oxymoron, but it ought to be a redundant phrase. There is…

Dr. Jablonowski earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of Washington and was honored with three fellowships from the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and Children’s Health Defense. He believes “scientific integrity” has lately become an oxymoron, but it ought to be a redundant phrase. There is no science without integrity, which is why he has joined Children’s Health Defense as a senior research scientist. To put it succinctly, he practices data science by writing programs that ask questions about databases. These questions can reveal population-based adverse outcomes of medical interventions. He has designed and worked with terabyte-sized databases (both biological and electronic medical record systems) and has published two book chapters and 13 peer-reviewed journal articles related to data mining and analysis for scientific investigation. His more recent peer-reviewed articles highlight the CDC/FDA participation in the COVID vaccine-related myocarditis disaster.

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