Kevin A. Ault, MD, is Vice President of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) and is a professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine. He served on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) when ACIP made multiple recommendations concerning COVID-19 vaccines in adults, adolescents, and children, and was an author of the 2023 adult, adolescent, and pediatric US immunization schedules, which include recommendations for maternal immunization and adult hepatitis B vaccination.

Ault has been an investigator in a wide variety of translational and clinical research involving maternal immunization, vaginitis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and human papillomavirus (HPV). Recent research projects include HPV vaccine development and immunology, maternal immunization, and inequities in vaccine uptake. He currently serves as the NFID representative on the ACIP HPV Vaccine and the RSV Pediatric/Maternal Work Groups.