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Mary Holland, J.D.

Chief Executive Officer, Children's Health Defense


Mary has been involved in the vaccine choice and health freedom movement for more than two decades. “Once I learned about the extreme liability protection that industry and healthcare providers enjoy and the suppression of accurate science and information about vaccine risk and injury, I understood the need for immediate, radical systemic change. I’ve been […]

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Mary has been involved in the vaccine choice and health freedom movement for more than two decades. “Once I learned about the extreme liability protection that industry and healthcare providers enjoy and the suppression of accurate science and information about vaccine risk and injury, I understood the need for immediate, radical systemic change. I’ve been devoted to that change ever since.”

Before joining CHD’s staff in fall 2019, Mary directed the Graduate Lawyering Program at the NYU School of Law for 15 years and lectured at the Columbia Law School on international human rights advocacy. She frequently testified in state legislatures around the country to retain or expand religious, medical and philosophical exemptions to vaccine mandates.



Mary has co-authored two books on vaccines, “Vaccine Epidemic” and “The HPV Vaccine on Trial: Seeking Justice for a Generation Betrayed.” She has written or co-written numerous articles about vaccine law and policy, particularly the seminal Unanswered Questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury. She also coedited and wrote the foreword for the English edition of “Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth.”

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Mary Holland: ‘Humanity Cannot Afford to Forget the Dire Toll That COVID Took Upon Us All’

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The Vaccine-Industrial-Complex Is Ratcheting Up Its Propaganda Machine

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New York Times Does It Again — Proves That Pro-Vaccine Propaganda Trumps Journalism

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The BMJ and Commonwealth Fund: All Hat, No Cattle?

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‘My Son Is a Prisoner in His Own Body’: Vaccine Injury Is Real — and Preventable

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This Is How We Win

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A New Day in the Nation’s Capital: CHD Agenda Now at Center of Government Policy

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To All the Attackers, We Say ‘Bring It On’

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‘Truth Is Always the Strongest Argument’

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The Media Playbook for Measles Looks a Lot Like Its COVID Playbook — This Time, Kids Are the Pawns

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We Can End the Autism Epidemic — By Telling the Truth

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Hawaii, Religious Exemptions and Measles: Will the Playbook Work Again?

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We Were Censored By Meta — We’re Taking Them to the Supreme Court

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Dear Mark Zuckerberg: It Ain’t Over Yet.

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With RFK Jr. Poised to Assume Key Role in Public Health, Kids Could Finally Have an Ally in Washington

From Mary Holland: Help Us ‘Rescue the Republic’!

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Celebrating the ‘Beautiful Life’ of Dr. Sheila Lewis Ealey

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Welcome to CHD’s Community Forum!

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‘The Stakes Could Scarcely Be Higher’: Why I’m Going to DC to Rally for Free Speech

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The Real Dr. Paul Offit Is Back!

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CHD President Mary Holland: ‘Children Should Have No Role in Violent Conflict’

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‘COVID Unmasked’: 4-Part Film Exposes Worst of Pandemic, But Ends With Message of Hope

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Courts Follow Culture — and the Culture Is Shifting

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Mary Holland: Those Who Violated Nuremberg Code Must Be Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity

Today, President Biden addressed the nation about plans to manage the Omicron variant.

Biden Predicts ‘Winter of Severe Illness’ for Unvaccinated, Ignores Science on COVID Vaccines, Treatments

As the Associated Press ap'The president pivoted from a war on the coronavirus to a war on the unvaccinated.'

Children’s Health Defense Responds to Biden’s ‘Declaration of War Against Unvaccinated’

Judge Denies Injunction to End Mandatory PCR Testing in NYC Schools

Judge Denies Injunction to End Mandatory PCR Testing in NYC Schools

The repeal directly affected over 26,000 children in New York public and private schools.

The Case Against New York’s Repeal of Religious Exemption — What’s Next?

‘It’s the Vaccines, Stupid’ — New Book Exposes Corruption That Led to HPV Vaccines and Injuries

"Under an Emergency Use Authorization, an EUA, vaccines are not allowed to be mandatory."

Under Federal Law, Can Your Employer Make You Get the COVID Vaccine?

New Jersey Bills S2173 and A3818 “Exemptions from Mandatory Immunizations”

A Parent’s Perspective on Virginia’s Bill to Mandate All Vaccines on the CDC Schedule

CHD’s Brief to the European Court of Human Rights

What We Can Learn From a Pandemic ‘Tabletop Exercise?‘

Dr. Fauci and COVID-19 Priorities: Therapeutics Now or Vaccines Later?

Coronavirus and Infection Control: What’s Going on with Testing?

The “TRACE” Act—Is This the World We Want?

Taking It to the Streets — Peaceful Protest in Albany as NYSBA Walks Back COVIDVaccine Mandate Recommendation

The New York City Measles Vaccine Mandate—Past and Future