Jennifer Nuzzo — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Elected to the National Academy of Medicine (2024) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2025).
Director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health.
Co-led the development of the Global Health Security Index, assessing health security capabilities in 195 countries.
Director and Principal Investigator of the Outbreak Observatory, documenting infectious disease outbreaks.
Earned a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2014).

Biography

Jennifer Nuzzo is an American epidemiologist who directs the Pandemic Center and serves as a Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health. She previously taught at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Nuzzo holds a Bachelor of Science from Rutgers University (1999), a Master of Science from the Harvard T.H.