NIAID Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci will deliver the 2022 David Packard Award Lecture at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences on April 11.
Newswise — Bethesda, Md. – Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and White House Chief Medical Advisor, will present “COVID-19: Progress and Priorities in the 3rd Year of a Historic Pandemic” when he delivers the 2022 David Packard Award Lecture at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), Monday, April 11, 2022.
Dr. Fauci has served as director of NIAID since 1984 and has overseen an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, Ebola, and Zika. Dr. Fauci has also advised seven presidents on many domestic and global health issues.
Over the last three years, Dr. Fauci has provided essential updates on COVID-19, helping the country to navigate through an unchartered pandemic. His efforts have earned him the Dan David Prize for Public Health, the National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Medal, and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s National Humanism in Medicine Medal, among other prestigious awards.
USU’s annual David Packard Award Lecture was established by the University’s faculty senate in honor of Hewlett-Packard cofounder David Packard, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense and USU’s second president in the 1970s. Previous Packard Award Lecturers include Nobel Laureate Dr. Stanley Prusiner and NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, among many other distinguished scholars and scientists.
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About the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences: The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, founded by an act of Congress in 1972, is the nation’s federal health sciences university and the academic heart of the Military Health System. USU students are primarily active-duty uniformed officers in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Public Health Service who receive specialized education in tropical and infectious diseases, TBI and PTSD, disaster response and humanitarian assistance, global health, and acute trauma care. USU also has graduate programs in oral biology, biomedical sciences and public health committed to excellence in research. The University's research program covers a wide range of areas important to both the military and public health. For more information about USU and its programs, visit www.usuhs.edu.
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