Ms. Nuzzo is an Associate at the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC. An epidemiologist by training, Ms. Nuzzo’s work focuses on public/private partnerships for public health preparedness, biosurveillance and disease mitigation strategies. She also worked on problems related to water security, international biosecurity, mass critical care and hospital preparedness. Ms. Nuzzo is an Associate Eeditor of the peer-reviewed journal, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, and was Co-managing Editor of the Biosecurity Briefing, a weekly internet-based news, science, and policy update. Ms. Nuzzo has published in the scientific literature on waterborne pathogens and has co-authored several manuals on environmental policy and planning. In addition to her work at the Center for Biosecurity, Ms. Nuzzo serves as a consultant to the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee, a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC). Previously, she was both a member of the Water Security Working Group, which advised the NDWAC, and a project advisor for the American Water Works Association Research Foundation (now called the Water Research Foundation), a primary funding organization for drinking water research in the United States. Ms. Nuzzo has also served as a consultant to pandemic influenza planning efforts in the Republic of Indonesia. Ms. Nuzzo joined the Center for Biosecurity at its founding in 2003. Prior to that, she served as a research analyst with the Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2002 and 2003, Ms. Nuzzo served as a public health epidemiologist for the City of New York, where she was involved with disease and syndromic surveillance efforts related to the City’s Waterborne Disease Risk Assessment Program. Central to her duties in New York was the management of the city’s drug sale monitoring program for surveillance of diarrheal illness. Prior to her work with New York City, she worked for the City of Cambridge, MA, on a local climate change initiative. Ms. Nuzzo received a Bachelor of Science (BS) from Rutgers University and a Master of Science (SM) degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is currently completing a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. | 
