Anne Schuchat

Anne Schuchat is a United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps rear admiral and doctor who currently serves as the director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Having worked with the CDC on immunization, respiratory, and other infectious diseases since 1988, she served as the Interim Deputy Director for Science and Public Health Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) between February and June 2009. She has also held other posts in the CDC.

Early life and education
Schuchat grew up in a Jewish family in Washington, D.C., the fourth of five children. Her grandfather was a kosher butcher from West Virginia. Schuchat graduated with honors from Swarthmore College and with honors from Dartmouth Medical School. She served as resident and chief resident in internal medicine at New York University′s Manhattan V.A. Hospital before beginning her public health career at CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer in NCID.

Career
As Interim Deputy Director for Science and Public Health Program, Schuchat focused on ensuring strong science and programmatic approaches were effectively integrated into planning across the agency. She has emphasized prevention of infectious diseases in children. Her emphasis on perinatal group B streptococcal disease prevention has led to an 80 percent reduction in newborn infections and a 75 percent narrowing of racial disparities among sufferers of this infectious disease. She has been instrumental in pre- and post-licensure evaluations of conjugate vaccines for bacterial meningitis and pneumonia and in accelerating availability of these new vaccines in resource-poor countries through WHO and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.

Personal life
Schuchat is married and has no children. She has three brothers and one sister.