Nicole Lurie

Nicole Lurie is an American physician, professor of medicine, and public health leader. She is Executive Director for Preparedness and Response at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Director of CEPI-US. She is also a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine. During the administration of President Barack Obama, she was Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2009 through the end of the president's second term. The mission of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response is to "lead the nation in preventing, responding to and recovering from the adverse health effects of public health emergencies and disasters, ranging from hurricanes to bioterrorism."

Education Lurie received her bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1979. Lurie received her Master of Science in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she also completed her medical residency. Lurie directed the organization's Center for Population Health and Health Disparities and oversaw its work on public health and preparedness.

In July 2009, Lurie returned to HHS as Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services. In that position, Lurie oversaw the federal public health response to various health crises, including Hurricane Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing.

Dr. Lurie has been a volunteer physician at the Bread for the City clinic in Washington, D.C. since 1998. Lurie is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Lurie has received a number of awards, including the Association for Health Services Research's Young Investigator Award; the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Distinguished Graduate Award (2009); the American Federation for Medical Research's Nellie Westerman Prize for Research in Ethics; and an American College of Physicians Mastership.

Personal life Lurie is married to Jesse L. Goodman, a physician and former chief scientist at the Food and Drug Administration.