Rear Admiral Anne Schuchat MED’84

Principal Deputy Director

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Anne Schuchat has played key roles in many Centers for Disease Control and PreventioDr. Anne Schuchat has played key roles in many Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) emergency responses, including the current COVID-19 response, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza response, the 2003 SARS outbreak in Beijing, and the 2001 bioterrorist anthrax response. Dr. Schuchat began her public health career in 1988 when she came to CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer. She was the initial medical director of the Active Bacterial Core surveillance of the Emerging Infections Program Network and spearheaded prevention of newborn infection from group B streptococcal disease in the 1990s. From 1998-2005, Dr. Schuchat served as chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch and, in 2005, she also led the National Center for Infectious Diseases as acting director; and from 2006-2015, she served as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. She has been CDC’s principal deputy director since September 2015, and she served as acting CDC director from January-July 2017 and February-March 2018. In 2018, Dr. Schuchat retired from the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) at the rank of rear admiral.

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