Population Health Spotlight Series - Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

"Infectious Disease: Prevention, Prediction, and Perspectives" is the theme of the Dornsife School of Public Health's 2024-25 Population Health Spotlight Series.

Speaker: Jeanne Marazzo, MD, MPH, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Title Talk: The Infectious Disease Research Agenda – New approaches to the Control of Infectious Diseases

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Speaker Bio:

Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, is the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she oversees a $6.3 billion budget that supports research to advance understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. She was previously the C. Glenn Cobbs Endowed Chair and Director of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and was Treasurer of the IDSA from 2021-2023, having served on the board since 2018.

Marrazzo researches the vaginal microbiome, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. She has had leadership roles in the NIH HIV Prevention Trials Network and the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium. She has been a leading voice in communicating science during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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