Anne Schuchat

RADM Anne Schuchat M.D.
Schuchat at a CDC press briefing in April 2009
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	U.S. Public Health Service
Rank	Rear admiral
Unit	USPHS Commissioned Corps
Commands held	Anthrax Emergency Response Team National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Interim Deputy Director for Science and Public Health (2009)
Battles/wars	2001 anthrax attacks SARS outbreak 2009 flu pandemic
Awards	USPHS Meritorious Service Medal Outstanding Service Medal USPHS Commendation Medal USPHS Achievement Medal Outstanding Unit Citation USPHS Unit Commendation Bicentennial Unit Commendation Foreign Duty Service Award Crisis Response Service Award USPHS Regular Corps Ribbon Commissioned Officers Association
Spouse(s)	1 husband
Relations	3 brothers, 1 sister
Website	www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/leaders/schuchat.htm

Anne Schuchat is a medical doctor who serves as the Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Acting Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry(ATSDR). She became Acting Director of CDC and Acting Administrator of ATSDR on January 20, 2017. She is an Assistant Surgeon General holding the ranks of rear admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. 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 at the CDC from February 2009 to June 2009. She has also held other posts in the CDC.

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 in 1980 and graduated with honors from Dartmouth Medical School in 1984.

Schuchat 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.

During the 2001 anthrax attacks, Schuchat served on CDC's Anthrax Emergency Response Team, which was tasked with investigating the attacks.

As the Interim Deputy Director for Science and Public Health Program at the CDC from February 2009 to June 2009, 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.