Jennifer B. Nuzzo

Jennifer Nuzzo is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is also a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and an associate professor in the department of environmental health and engineering and the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. An epidemiologist by training, her work focuses on global health security, with a focus on pandemic preparedness, outbreak detection and response, health systems as they relate to global health security, biosurveillance, and infectious disease diagnostics. She directs the Outbreak Observatory, which conducts, in partnership with frontline public health practitioners, operational research to improve outbreak preparedness and response.

Governance

The World is Unprepared for the Unthinkable

A biological attack anywhere would have profound and far-reaching political, military, and health consequences

Governance

The United States COVID-19 Testing Debacle

Understanding why the U.S. response to COVID-19 was marred by challenges

Migration

Spread of COVID-19 Variants Adds to Urgency of Disease Control Efforts

Increasing evidence suggests new COVID-19 variants are more transmissible between people