Nancy Messonnier

Nancy Messonnier (née Rosenstein; born November 1965) is an American physician who now serves as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is working on the CDC response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Nancy Messonnier
Director of National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Assumed office
April 4, 2016
Preceded byAnne Schuchat
Personal details
Born
Nancy Ellen Rosenstein

November 1965 (age 54)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse(s)Mark Messonnier
RelativesRod Rosenstein (brother)
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA)
University of Chicago (MD)
WebsiteGovernment website
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service U.S. Public Health Service
RankCaptain
Unit PHS Commissioned Corps
Battles/wars2001 anthrax attacks
2009 flu pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic

Early life and education

Messonnier was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Robert Rosenstein, who ran a small business, and Gerri Rosenstein, a bookkeeper and local school board president. She grew up in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania, with her brother Rod Rosenstein.[1]

Messonnier graduated from Lower Moreland High School in Lower Moreland Township. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. She then attended the University of Chicago School of Medicine, where she received her Doctor of Medicine in 1992. She then returned to the University of Pennsylvania for her residency training in internal medicine between 1992 and 1995.

Career
Messonnier in 2013

Messonnier began her career in public health in 1995 as an epidemic intelligence service officer in the National Center for Infectious Diseases, a program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During her tenure at the CDC, she led the Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch in NCIRD's Division of Bacterial Diseases from 2007 to 2012.[2] She also served as the deputy director of NCIRD from 2014 to 2016 before becoming director of the center on April 4, 2016.[3][2]

During the course of her career, Messonnier notably worked on the 2001 anthrax attacks response, serving as co-leader of the anthrax management team and vaccine working group.[3] She also played a leading role developing a low-cost meningococcal meningitis vaccine to prevent an emerging epidemic in Africa, known as MenAfriVac, in 2010. She has also worked on communications strategies to promote the use of vaccines to prevent the emergence of disease outbreaks.[4]

COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Since January 2020, Messonnier has been helping lead the CDC efforts to address and combat the emerging threat of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).[5] When 195 Americans were evacuated out of Wuhan because of the virus, the CDC moved to quarantine all of them, with Messonnier noting: "While we realize this is an unprecedented action, this is an unprecedented threat."[6]

In a February 25 press briefing at the White House, Messonnier warned of the impending community spread of the virus in the United States, stating: "Disruption to everyday life might be severe."[7][8] Following her comments during the February White House press briefing, she did not appear again at the briefing and there was speculation that Messonnier had been "silenced" for her comments stressing the growing urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[9] On February 28, she said that the U.S. "acted incredibly quickly before most other countries. Aggressively controlled our borders and we were able to slow the spread into the United States. ...We have been testing aggressively."[10][11] While Messonnier has no longer appeared in White House briefings, she has continued giving regular CDC briefings, which have been broadcast to the public, and she has made public appearances in All Things Considered on NPR.[12][13] She continues to be a public source of reliable information on the pandemic.

On March 9, she cautioned those who were at high risk of severe illness, including the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions. These cautionary measures included stocking up on groceries and medications as well as preparing to shelter in place for the foreseeable future.[14][15] She noted that it was possible that the virus could continue to circulate into next year and that state and local public health officials would begin working to mitigate the spread of the disease and minimize the growing burden on healthcare workers who would soon be dealing with high case loads.

She has also addressed concerns around the CDC and FDA's failure to get working COVID-19 testing kits into the hands of public health officials to enable better containment of the disease and for mitigation of its spread.[16] On January 21, 2020, she had announced that the CDC had finalized its own COVID-19 test. On February 5, the CDC began distributing diagnostic tests to public-health laboratories, however, several of those tests had contaminated reagents, rendering them useless,[17] and leading to a major gap in fighting the outbreak.[16] The situation was exacerbated by FDA-imposed regulations on testing, making it difficult for independent development of COVID-19 tests to fill the CDC's distribution gap.[18]

Personal life

Messonnier is married to Mark L. Messonnier. She is the sister of Rod Rosenstein.[19]

Awards, honors, and decorations

United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, June 12, 2016

For enabling the unprecedented use of an investigational serogroup B meningococcal vaccine

Public Health Service Presidential Unit Citation, June 7, 2016

For Ebola response

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, February 17, 2016

For excellent response to national outbreak of severe respiratory illness

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, November 25, 2014[22]For investigation of two state-wide pertussis epidemics
Public Health Service Unit Commendation, November 29, 2012

For National Park Service CDC Zoonotic Team

Public Health Service Unit Commendation, October 27, 2010

For response to an outbreak of meningococcal disease in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, August 9, 2010

For leading the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' response to the 2009 influenza pandemic

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, April 15, 2010

For emergence of Ciprofloxacin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis in North America

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, April 29, 2009

For exemplary work in assisting state and local health departments in multiple pertussis outbreaks

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, April 29, 2009

For service preventing childhood pneumonia and meningitis by increasing adoption of vaccines in developing countries

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, December 16, 2008

For designing hands-on laboratory training courses to increase global meningitis disease surveillance

Public Health Service Unit Commendation, June 19, 2008

For service on the Awards Board and support to the U.S. Public Health Service awards process

Public Health Service Unit Commendation, February 23, 2007

For outstanding teamwork, scientific, and community interaction in the investigation of an anthrax case

Public Health Service Outstanding Service Medal, January 12, 2006

For outstanding leadership to improve control and prevention of meningococcal disease in the U.S. and Africa

Public Health Service Unit Commendation, October 27, 2005

For collaborating with health agencies in assessment and response to accidental exposure to Bacillus anthracis

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, March - July 2003

For the investigation and control of SARS during the acute public health response

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, January - July 2002

For responding to the serogroup W135 meningococcal disease epidemic in Burkina Faso

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, September 2001 - March 2002

For outstanding service in responding to terrorist attacks

Public Health Service Crisis Response Service Award, October 2001 - January 2002

For participation in the World Trade Center and Anthrax response

Public Health Service Commendation Medal, October 1997 - March 2001

For evaluation of risk of meningococcal disease in college students and development of vaccine strategies

Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation, July 1998 - October 1998

For the Leptospirosis response

Public Health Service Achievement Medal, July 1997 - June 1998

For meningococcal disease surveillance

Public Health Service Commendation Medal, July 1997 - July 1998

For outstanding contributions to improve prevention of meningococcal disease in the U.S. and Africa

Public Health Service Foreign Duty Service Award, January 1998 - December 1998
Public Health Service Bicentennial Unit Commendation Award, January 1998

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Selected works and publications
  • Traeger, Marc S.; Wiersma, Steven T.; Rosenstein, Nancy E.; Malecki, Jean M.; Shepard, Colin W.; Raghunathan, Pratima L.; Pillai, Segaran P.; Popovic, Tanja; Quinn, Conrad P.; Meyer, Richard F.; Zaki, Sharif R.; Kumar, Savita; Bruce, Sherrie M.; Sejvar, James J.; Dull, Peter M.; Tierney, Bruce C.; Jones, Joshua D.; Perkins, Bradley A. (October 2002). "First Case of Bioterrorism-Related Inhalational Anthrax in the United States, Palm Beach County, Florida, 2001". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 8 (10): 1029–1034. doi:10.3201/eid0810.020354. PMC 2730309. PMID 12396910. Wikidata ()
  • Wright, Jennifer Gordon; Quinn, Conrad P.; Shadomy, Sean; Messonnier, Nancy; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (July 23, 2010). "Use of anthrax vaccine in the United States: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2009". MMWR. Recommendations and Reports : Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Recommendations and Reports. 59 (RR-6): 1–30. PMID 20651644. Wikidata ()
  • Novak, Ryan T; Kambou, Jean Ludovic; Diomandé, Fabien VK; Tarbangdo, Tiga F; Ouédraogo-Traoré, Rasmata; Sangaré, Lassana; Lingani, Clement; Martin, Stacey W; Hatcher, Cynthia; Mayer, Leonard W; LaForce, F Marc; Avokey, Fenella; Djingarey, Mamoudou H; Messonnier, Nancy E; Tiendrébéogo, Sylvestre R; Clark, Thomas A (October 2012). "Serogroup A meningococcal conjugate vaccination in Burkina Faso: analysis of national surveillance data". The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 12 (10): 757–764. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(12)70168-8. PMC 4831863. PMID 22818241. Wikidata ()
  • Patel, Anita; Jernigan, Daniel B.; Abdirizak, Fatuma; Abedi, Glen; Aggarwal, Sharad; Albina, Denise; Allen, Elizabeth; Andersen, Lauren; Anderson, Jade; Anderson, Megan; Anderson, Tara; Anderson, Kayla; Bardossy, Ana Cecilia; Barry, Vaughn; Beer, Karlyn; Bell, Michael; Berger, Sherri; Bertulfo, Joseph; Biggs, Holly; Bornemann, Jennifer; Bornstein, Josh; Bower, Willie; Bresee, Joseph; Brown, Clive; Budd, Alicia; Buigut, Jennifer; Burke, Stephen; Burke, Rachel; Burns, Erin; et al. (February 7, 2020). "Initial Public Health Response and Interim Clinical Guidance for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak — United States, December 31, 2019–February 4, 2020". MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 69 (5): 140–146. doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm6905e1. PMC 7004396. PMID 32027631.
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