Hib Initiative Team

Dr. Anne Schuchat

Dr. Schuchat is the director of the National Immunizations Program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She has worked as a medical epidemiologist at CDC since 1988. She served as the first medical director of the Emerging Infections Program Network's Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs), which has conducted surveillance for invasive bacterial disease in the United States since the early 1990s. Dr. Schuchat became chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch in the National Center for Infectious Diseases in 1998. She has made critically important contributions to evaluation of vaccines, including those for Hib, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis, as well as of prevention strategies for group B streptococcal disease and foodborne listeriosis. Dr. Schuchat has served as a consultant and temporary advisor for the World Health Organization, U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Food and Drug Administration, among other organizations. She also provided epidemiologic assistance to local and national health authorities in Beijing, China during the 2003 SARS epidemic. Dr. Schuchat graduated with highest 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 Veterans Affairs Hospital in Manhattan before beginning her public health career at CDC.

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