Jennifer B. Nuzzo

Jennifer B. Nuzzo is professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. An epidemiologist by training, her work focuses on global health security, public health preparedness and response, and health systems resilience. Together with colleagues from the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Economist Impact, she co-leads the development of the first-ever Global Health Security Index, which benchmarks 195 countries’ public health and health care capacities and capabilities; commitment to international norms; global health security financing; and socioeconomic, political, and environmental risk environments. She also founded the Outbreak Observatory, which conducts, in partnership with frontline public health practitioners, operational research to improve outbreak preparedness and response. Prior to coming to Brown, Nuzzo was an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She was also a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. In addition to her scholarly work, Nuzzo regularly advises national governments and for-profit and nonprofit organizations on pandemic preparedness and response, including COVID-19. Nuzzo's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Fox News, Politico, The Hill, and The Boston Globe. Nuzzo received a doctorate of public health in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Master of Science in environmental health from Harvard University, and a Bachelor Science in environmental sciences from Rutgers University.