"Public Health Metamorphosis: On the Road to Butterfly"
Anne
Schuchant, MD has decades of experience working on infectious diseases and
prevention programs at CDC. She will take a look backward to review how public
health and CDC have grappled with issues ranging from pandemic threats to
prevention policies. She will then fast forward to consider how our potential
can be more fully realized in the future.
Anne Schuchat, MD
Dr.
Schuchat has been Principal Deputy Director for CDC since September 2015. She
began her public health career in 1988 when she came to CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence
Service Officer. She was director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and
Respiratory Diseases from 2006-2015. She also served as CDC's interim deputy
director for Science and Program in early 2009. She was promoted to Rear
Admiral in the United States Public Health Service in 2006 and earned a second
star in 2010. Schuchat was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academy of Sciences in 2008. Globally, Dr. Schuchat has worked in West Africa
on meningitis, pneumonia, and Ebola vaccine trials, in South Africa on
surveillance and prevention projects, and in China on Beijing’s SARS emergency
response. She has authored or co-authored more than 230 scientific articles,
book chapters, and reviews.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
This
lectureship is endowed by Brewster C. Doust, MD, and is presented in
partnership with the Center for Community Health and the Departments of
Medicine, Public Health Sciences, and Pediatrics.
Additional Information:
- Free parking at the Saunders Research Building Lot 14, Corner of Kendrick RD and Crittenden Blvd.
- ASL interpreters or other accommodations are available upon request.
- Questions? Email Mary McDonald at mary_mcdonald@urmc.rochester.edu (585) 224-3062
