Jennifer Nuzzo 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.
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Jennifer Nuzzo is a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Jennifer 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 and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security together with The Economist Intelligence Unit.
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Jennifer Nuzzo 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.
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Jennifer Nuzzo serves as an associate editor of the Health Security journal.
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Jennifer Nuzzo participated in the Clade X bioterrorism preparedness exercise in May 2018.
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Jennifer Nuzzo has often appeared in the media discussing how health systems respond to outbreaks, and has helped bring attention to dangers of delaying vaccination, the spread of the Ebola virus, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jennifer Nuzzo's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Fox News, Politico, The Hill, and The Boston Globe.
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Jennifer Nuzzo advises national governments, for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations on pandemic preparedness, including COVID-19.
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Jennifer Nuzzo was previously the lead epidemiologist for the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Testing Insights Initiative within the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
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Jennifer Nuzzo was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024 in recognition of her research on infectious disease threats.