Life expectancy in the United States rose in 2022, the first increase since the COVID pandemic began, according to new federal data. But those gains were not enough to compensate for the years of life lost to the virus, which remains one of the nation’s top causes of death.
Pandemic Center
Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH
Director of the Pandemic Center, Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health
Biography
Dr. Nuzzo is a nationally and globally recognized leader on global health security, public health preparedness and response, and health systems resilience. She is also a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. 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 healthcare capacities and capabilities, their commitment to international norms and global health security financing, and socioeconomic, political, and environmental risk environments.
In addition to her scholarly work, Dr. Nuzzo regularly advises national governments and for-profit and nonprofit organizations on pandemic preparedness and response, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is a pandemic advisor for Impact Assets’ Stop the Spread Campaign. She is currently a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s (NASEM) Standing Committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Center for Preparedness and Response.
Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Fox News, Politico, The Hill, and The Boston Globe. She was featured in Debunking Borat, a television series on Amazon Prime Video, and her work was featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. She served as COVID Advisor for the Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.
Jennifer Nuzzo in the News
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How Well Does Masking Work? And Other Pandemic Questions We Need to Answer.
Commentary from Center Director Jennifer Nuzzo on masking.
The Washington Post
Covid, flu, RSV declining in hospitals as ‘tripledemic’ threat fades
“As awful as omicron was, it left in its wake a tremendous amount of immunity,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown's School of Public Health.