page_title: Nancy Messonnier
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Nancy Messonnier / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Nancy Messonnier, DGHP Acting Director unveiling FETP photos from Nigeria
context_page_description: Nancy Messonnier is an American physician who 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.
context_section_description: 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. She also served as the deputy director of NCIRD from 2014 to 2016 before becoming director of the center on April 4, 2016.
  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. 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.
caption: Messonnier in 2013
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