Mary Lou Clements-Mann

Education Clements-Mann graduated from Texas Tech University in 1968 and received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1972. She also received a doctorate in tropical medicine from the University of London in 1975 and a master's degree in public health, specifically epidemiology, from Johns Hopkins University in 1979.

Career Beginning in 1975, Clements-Mann worked as consultant to the World Health Organization's Smallpox Eradication Program in India. Later, she was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine from 1979 to 1985.

Throughout her career, Clements-Mann developed an extensive bibliography with papers on vaccines for influenza, HIV, cholera, hepatitis B, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rotavirus, E. coli, and typhoid.

Personal life and death Clements-Mann married Jonathan Mann in December 1996. She died in the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 with her husband while traveling to a World Health Organization meeting in Geneva.