Global Dimensions of COVID-19: A Conversation with Jennifer Nuzzo

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Join Dean Eliot A. Cohen and Jennifer Nuzzo for a discussion on global dimensions of COVID-19. Nuzzo is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, 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, and a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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. Nuzzo is also the lead epidemiologist for the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Testing Insights Initiative housed within the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. In addition to her work at the Center, Nuzzo advises national governments and for-profit and nonprofit organizations on pandemic preparedness and response, including COVID-19.