Jennifer Nuzzo

Jennifer Nuzzo is an American epidemiologist. She is Director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, having previously taught at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[1][2] She is also a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations.[3]

Jennifer Nuzzo
NationalityAmerican
Education
SpouseMarc Kuchner
Scientific career
FieldsGlobal health, Epidemiology, Outbreak Response
Institutions
ThesisPost-arrival Screening and Treatment of Foreign-born Individuals for Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection (2014)
Doctoral advisorKenrad E. Nelson

Early life and education

Nuzzo earned a Bachelor of Science from Rutgers University in 1999.[2] She received a Master of Science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2001 and a Doctor of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2014.

Career

Nuzzo co-led the development of the Global Health Security Index, an assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries, performed by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security together with The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).[4] She is the director and principal investigator of the Outbreak Observatory, a research project working to document infectious disease outbreaks and how governments respond to them. Nuzzo serves as an associate editor of the Health Security journal.[5] She participated in the Clade X bioterrorism preparedness exercise in May 2018.[6][7]

She has often appeared in the media discussing how health systems respond to outbreaks, and has helped bring attention to dangers of delaying vaccination,[8] the spread of the Ebola virus,[9][10] and the COVID-19 pandemic.[11][12][13][14] Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Fox News, Politico, The Hill, and The Boston Globe. She advises national governments, for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations on pandemic preparedness, including COVID-19.[2]

She was previously the lead epidemiologist for the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Testing Insights Initiative within the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.[2]

Criticism

Nuzzo was criticized for comments on the George Floyd protests in which large numbers of people broke social distancing and lockdown rules during the COVID-19 shutdown; she said that to not protest against racism would cause greater public health risks than the virus.[15][16][17]

See also

References
  1. "Nuzzo, Jennifer". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
  2. "Biography of Jennifer Nuzzo with the Center for Health Security". Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Archived from the original on 2022-03-26. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
  3. "Jennifer Nuzzo". Council on Foreign Relations. Archived from the original on 2022-04-12. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  4. "About the GHS Index". GHS Index.
  5. "Health Security | Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers".
  6. Security, Johns Hopkins Center for Health. "About Clade X, a tabletop exercise". Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Archived from the original on 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
  7. "Clade X: A Global Health Security Pandemic Simulation Highlights Need to Support Global Health Security Initiatives". Global Health Council. 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
  8. "The danger of delaying vaccination". 24 August 2017.
  9. "As Ebola Cases Rise in Congo, the W.H.O. Declines to Issue Emergency Declaration" The New York Times, April 12, 2019
  10. "Q&A: A health official says Ebola has been ‘cured.’ Here’s why that’s not really the case" Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2019
  11. "The Coronavirus is Now Officially a Global Emergency". Wired.
  12. "BBC World Service - the Real Story, Can China stop a killer virus spreading?".
  13. "House panel to hold hearing on response to coronavirus". 30 January 2020.
  14. Jennifer B. Nuzzo (2020-02-28) [2020-02-02]. "Past epidemics prove fighting coronavirus with travel bans is a mistake". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  15. Chatterton Williams, Thomas (8 January 2020). "We often accuse the right of distorting science. But the left changed the coronavirus narrative overnight". The Guardian. England. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  16. Diamond, Dan (4 June 2020). "Suddenly, Public Health Officials Say Social Justice Matters More Than Social Distance". Politico. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  17. Winfield Cunningham, Paige (8 June 2020). "The Health 202: Americans were told to 'stay at home.' Now some experts say anti-racism protests are okay". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
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