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Dr. Martin Myers is a professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine & community health at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas, where he also serves as the associate director for public health policy and education at the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development.

Prior to joining the faculty at UTMB, Dr. Myers was the director of the National Vaccine Program Office in the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Public Health & Science. In that position, Dr. Myers coordinated immunization policies across federal agencies and departments in conjunction with the private sector.

After graduating from Princeton University, Dr. Myers obtained his medical degree and finished his pediatric training at Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. He received his virology and infectious diseases training at the Beth Israel and Children's Hospitals in Boston, and in the Laboratory of Virology and Rickettsiology at the National Institutes of Health. He was director of pediatric infectious diseases first at the University of Iowa and then at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati.

From 1993 to 1999, he was professor and chair of the department of pediatrics at Northwestern University, and physician-in-chief at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Dr. Myers is a herpes virologist who shared a laboratory with Dr. Lawrence Stanberry for many years. He has published more than 100 professional articles and chapters and has received multiple teaching awards. His true passion, however, is immunization and immunization policy.

He serves as the president and board chair of a new non-profit corporation, Immunizations for Public Health (I4PH), dedicated to provide science-based information about vaccines to those who need it. He recruited the National Network for Immunization Information (NNii) to Galveston as a component of I4PH in 2003, and serves as director and editor for NNii.