Jane Zucker, MD, MSC

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 from 2025 to 2023. She is an infectious diseases trained internist and medical epidemiologist. She has dedicated her 35+ year career to public health working in local, federal, and international settings. Her expertise is in implementation and management of immunization programs, use of immunization information system data to improve immunization coverage, and vaccine-preventable diseases outbreak control and emergency preparedness. 

Notably, 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 most recently 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.

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 infection diseases and is a Fellow in the Infectious Disease Society of America. She is widely published in peer-reviewed medical journals.