Anne Schuchat Dr. Schuchat is currently serving as the Chief Health Officer for the CDC's H1N1 Response. She served as CDC’s Interim Director for Science and Program from February to May 2009. In December 2005, she assumed leadership of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and in 2006, she was promoted to the rank of Assistant Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service. In 2008 she was elected to the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Schuchat has been at CDC since 1988, when she entered the U.S. Public Health Service as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer. She has made significant contributions to prevent infectious diseases in children through her work informing vaccine and prevention policy, developing guidelines and disease monitoring systems, conducting pre- and post-licensure vaccine evaluations, and collaborating with international, national, and state partners to accelerate the availability of vaccines and prevention programs. Internationally, she has worked in West Africa on meningitis and pneumonia vaccine studies, in South Africa on surveillance and prevention projects, and in China on SARS emergency response and epidemiologic studies. She has co-authored more than 180 scientific articles and received numerous awards, including the Public Health Service’s Meritorious Service Medal and Physician Research Officer of the Year for her contributions to preventing group B streptococcal infections in newborns. Dr. Schuchat graduated with highest honors from Swarthmore College and with honors from Dartmouth Medical School. She completed residency training in internal medicine at New York University's Manhattan VA Hospital. Previous • Next Speaker Bio
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