Jane R. Zucker, MD, MSc
Adjunct Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
School of Public Health
Dr. Jane R. Zucker is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at SUNY Downstate School of Public Health, Brooklyn, NY. She previously served as the Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Immunization at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2005 to 2023. She has dedicated her 35+ year career to public health working at the local and federal level and in international settings. Her expertise is in implementation and management of immunization programs, use of immunization information system data to improve immunization coverage, vaccine-preventable diseases outbreak control and emergency preparedness.
Dr. Zucker served in a leadership role guiding New York’s City’s response to the 2018-2019 measles outbreak, served as the Director of the Vaccine Operations Center for the NYC Health Department’s COVID’s response and was a voting member on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices from December 2024 to June 2025. She is currently a member of the National Sustainability Committee for the Elimination of Measles, Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in the United States of America and serves on the Immunizations Measurement Advisory Panel for National Committee for Quality Assurance.
Dr. Zucker started with the CDC in 1990 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases. In 1996, she was assigned to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to oversee their global polio eradication initiative. She joined the Bureau of Immunization as Medical Director in 2000.
Dr. Zucker received her MD degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and her MSc degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her internal medicine residency at Kings County Hospital/SUNY Downstate and her Infectious Diseases fellowship at the Beth Israel, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute program in Boston. Dr. Zucker is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases and is a Fellow in the Infectious Diseases Society of America. She is widely published in peer-reviewed medical journals.