Jeanne Marrazzo
Jeanne Marrazzo | |
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Marrazzo in 2023 | |
| 6th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | |
| In office September 24, 2023 – April 24, 2025 | |
| Deputy | Hugh Auchincloss |
| Preceded by | Anthony Fauci |
| Succeeded by | Jeffery Taubenberger (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Education | Radcliffe College (BA) Thomas Jefferson University (MD) University of Washington (MPH) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Infectious diseases |
| Institutions | University of Washington School of Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham National Institutes of Health |
| Thesis | Selective Screening Criteria for Chlamydia Trachomatis Infection in Women Attending Region X Family Planning and STD Clincs: Performance and Cost-Effectiveness (1994) |
Jeanne Marisa Marrazzo is an American physician-scientist and infectious diseases specialist. She was the director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases and focused on prevention of HIV infection using biomedical interventions. Marrazzo is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and Infectious Disease Society of America. On August 2, 2023 Lawrence A. Tabak, acting director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), named Jeanne M. Marrazzo as the 6th director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.