Chris is the founder and Director of VaxCalc Labs, the informed consent technology company. VaxCalc's purpose is to create a happier, healthier, more scientific and resilient world by empowering each individual to make their own vaccination decisions - with the tools, technology, planning capability, research and community they need to do it.
VaxCalc is the first business that celebrates vaccine hesitancy, providing a structured process, compassionate support, and a global online community for informed vaccination decision-making. VaxCalc expresses Chris's dream of creating a powerful force for good in the world by overcoming censorship, strengthening and spreading freedom, and creating community.
Chris has a strong background in databases and software development, having worked and trained at IBM's International Systems Center in Gaithersburg MD, built bank regulation software at the Federal Reserve Board, and consulted on Wall Street at DLJ.
He founded and ran an early dot-com company that made use of customized machine learning tools to identify important trends in online discussion such as discovering the first mentions of natural dog food at a time when the manufacturers were extending the shelf-life and still pushing the idea that dogs should eat corn.
Chris is an innovator in the AI space and established a private consultancy to help small organizations with developing effective strategies for using AI.
A two-decade veteran health-freedom advocate, Chris did his own research to protect his children from excessive over-vaccination and the one-size-fits-all dogmatic thinking that afflicts many pediatricians.
This led him to volunteer from 2007 through 2018 as the volunteer Director of Database Management for the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC).
In 2016, he fought successfully to protect and preserve Virginia's religious exemption. And in 2021, he was an active part of the parent's revolution in Virginia that swept Governor Youngkin into office, campaigning door-to-door with his daughter in overwhelmingly Democrat neighborhoods.
-- Chris Downey
VaxCalc is the result of 20 years of research, software development, and advocacy - and it's the first and only service that provides a structured process, compassionate support, and an online community for informed vaccination decision-making.
In Memoriam
Chris has dedicated VaxCalc to the memory of his brother-in-arms Michael Schrimshaw, 1/24/75 - 6/14/13.
