13 Facts About Nancy Messonnier

Nancy Messonnier is an American physician who served as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2016 to 2021.

Nancy Messonnier worked on the CDC's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Nancy Messonnier grew up in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania, with her brother Rod Rosenstein.

Nancy Messonnier graduated from Lower Moreland High School in Lower Moreland Township.

Nancy Messonnier received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987.

Nancy Messonnier then attended the University of Chicago School of Medicine, where she received her Doctor of Medicine in 1992.

Nancy Messonnier then returned to the University of Pennsylvania for her residency training in internal medicine between 1992 and 1995.

Nancy Messonnier began her career in public health in 1995 as an epidemic intelligence service officer in the National Center for Infectious Diseases, a program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nancy Messonnier served as the deputy director of NCIRD from 2014 to 2016 before becoming director of the center on April 4,2016.

Nancy Messonnier played a leading role developing a low-cost meningococcal meningitis vaccine to prevent an emerging epidemic in Africa, known as MenAfriVac, in 2010.

Nancy Messonnier has worked on communications strategies to promote the use of vaccines to prevent the emergence of disease outbreaks.

Nancy Messonnier addressed concerns around the CDC and FDA's failure to get working COVID-19 testing kits into the hands of public health officials in a timely manner to enable better containment of the disease and mitigation of its spread.

On June 22,2022 the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced that Nancy Messonnier had been appointed to serve as the school's dean following the departure of Barbara Rimer, effective September 1,2022.