Jennifer Nuzzo

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Jennifer Nuzzo
NationalityAmerican
Education
Spouse(s)Marc Kuchner
Scientific career
FieldsGlobal health, Epidemiology, Outbreak Response
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
ThesisPost-arrival Screening and Treatment of Foreign-born Individuals for Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection (2014)
Doctoral advisorKenrad E. Nelson

Jennifer Nuzzo is an American epidemiologist, an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering and the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.[1] She is also a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations.[2]

Early life and education[]

Nuzzo earned a Bachelor of Science from Rutgers University in 1999.[3] 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-lead 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 has often appeared in the media discussing how health systems respond to outbreaks, and has helped bring attention to dangers of delaying vaccination,[6] the spread of the Ebola virus,[7][8] and the 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic.[9][10][11][12]

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.[13][14][15]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Biography of Jennifer Nuzzo with the Center for Health Security".
  2. ^ "Jennifer Nuzzo". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  3. ^ Security, JHSPH Center for Health. "Biography of Jennifer Nuzzo with the Center for Health Security". Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  4. ^ "About the GHS Index".
  5. ^ "Health Security | Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers".
  6. ^ "The danger of delaying vaccination".
  7. ^ "As Ebola Cases Rise in Congo, the W.H.O. Declines to Issue Emergency Declaration" The New York Times, April 12, 2019
  8. ^ "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
  9. ^ "The Coronavirus is Now Officially a Global Emergency". Wired.
  10. ^ "BBC World Service - the Real Story, Can China stop a killer virus spreading?".
  11. ^ "House panel to hold hearing on response to coronavirus". 30 January 2020.
  12. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/03/fighting-coronoavirus-with-travel-bans-is-mistake/
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Diamond, Dan (4 June 2020). "Suddenly, Public Health Officials Say Social Justice Matters More Than Social Distance". Politico. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  15. ^ 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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