Crises, Calamities, and Chaos: How Public Health Can Improve Response to Emerging Threats Wherever They Arise.
Monday, April 30, 2018
4:30 p.m.–6 p.m. (doors open at 4 p.m.)
Hiebert Lounge
72 East Concord Street
Boston
From Ebola to Zika, from hurricanes to opioids, threats to health make headlines and challenge our public health response. Lessons learned from CDC’s engagements around the world, and in our backyard, suggest a role for everyone in mitigating risk and building resilience.
Speaker
Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Rear Admiral, US Public Health Service
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Anne Schuchat joined CDC as an epidemic intelligence service officer in 1988. She has served in various leadership posts over the years, and currently serves as CDC principal deputy director, a role she assumed in September 2015. She served as acting CDC director from January to July 2017 and was director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases from 2006 to 2015.
Schuchat played key roles in CDC emergency responses, including the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza response, the 2003 SARS outbreak in Beijing and the 2001 bioterrorist anthrax response. Globally, she has worked on meningitis, pneumonia, and Ebola vaccine trials in West Africa, and conducted surveillance and prevention projects in South Africa.
Schuchat graduated from Swarthmore College and Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and completed her residency and chief residency in internal medicine at NYU’s Manhattan VA Hospital. She was promoted to rear admiral in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service in 2006 and earned a second star in 2010.
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