In the last of this series, a turn-of-the-century South African dynamite company would become the foundation for a national biological and chemical weapons programme.
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Pandemic Center
Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH
Director of the Pandemic Center, Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health
Biography
Jennifer Nuzzo is a nationally and globally recognized leader 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 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, Nuzzo regularly advises national governments and for-profit and nonprofit organizations on pandemic preparedness and response, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2024 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2025. 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. She served as a pandemic advisor for ImpactAssets’ Stop the Spread Campaign.
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.
Recent News
The United States is on the brink of losing its measles elimination status, a celebrated distinction it has held since 2000, when the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) determined the country had interrupted endemic transmission of the virus.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- As of today, there are more than 5,000 cases of measles in the country, the most the country has seen in 35 years.
Earlier this week, the Colorado Department of Health informed the public that there was a confirmed case of measles in Weld County.
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Earlier this week, the Colorado Department of Health informed the public that there was a confirmed case of measles in Weld County.
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With 330 new infections reported this week, confirmed measles cases in the United States have reached 5,182, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This marks the 13th straight week the nation has seen a triple-digit increase in measles cases reported by the CDC.
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This marks the 13th straight week the nation has seen a triple-digit increase in measles cases reported by the CDC.
Washington state reported a bird flu death this month in a person who had exposure to an infected dairy cow. In the spring of 2024, it felt like the U.S. was on the cusp of a biological disaster. A strain of bird flu, long circulating in birds, had spilled over into a new host: dairy cows.
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A measles outbreak at an October 2024 wedding in New Brunswick contributed to the virus reestablishing itself in Canada, according to a recent analysis in The BMJ, a London-based medical journal.
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See all Pandemic Center news The United States is on the brink of losing its measles elimination status, a celebrated distinction it has held since 2000, when the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) determined the country had interrupted endemic transmission of the virus.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- As of today, there are more than 5,000 cases of measles in the country, the most the country has seen in 35 years.
Earlier this week, the Colorado Department of Health informed the public that there was a confirmed case of measles in Weld County.
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Earlier this week, the Colorado Department of Health informed the public that there was a confirmed case of measles in Weld County.
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A measles outbreak at an October 2024 wedding in New Brunswick contributed to the virus reestablishing itself in Canada, according to a recent analysis in The BMJ, a London-based medical journal.