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Amanda Cohn

Dr. Amanda Cohn, MD, is an American pediatrician based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Education

Cohn is board certified in Pediatrics and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.1)

She attended Brown University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English.2) She obtained her medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine and completed a residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts.3) 4)

Career and Affiliations

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Cohn is the Director of the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders under the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).5) In this role, she acts as a liaison representative on the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), responsible for approving COVID-19 vaccines in Canada.6)

She previously served as Executive Secretariat of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and Chief Medical Officer for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD).7)

Prior to that role, she served as the Acting Director for the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and Deputy Director for Immunization Services Division for NCIRD.8) 9) Dr. Cohn came to the CDC in 2004 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and joined the Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch in 2006, where she focused on prevention and control meningococcal disease, both domestically and internationally. From 2007 to 2014, she was the CDC lead for the ACIP Meningococcal Vaccines Work Group.

She is the recipient of the CDC 2009 Iain Hardy Memorial Award for “outstanding contributions to vaccine-preventable diseases.”10)

U.S. Public Health Service

Cohn is a Commander in the US Public Health Service.11)

Forum on Microbial Threats

Cohn has participated numerous times on the planning committee for the Forum on Microbial Threats, chaired by EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak.12) 13)

Research

Vaccines

Cohn has co-authored research on meningococcal vaccines.14)

COVID-19

Cohn was a co-author on the study identifying the first SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United States, published in March 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine.15)

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Fellows in the News. (2014). AAP News, 35(7), 32–32. https://doi.org/10.1542/aapnews.2014357-32
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CAPT Amanda Cohn. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Retrieved April 21, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20211108164042/https://www.fda.gov/media/136851/download
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Dr. Amanda Cohn Internal Medicine/Pediatrics. Atlanta GA. WebMD. Retrieved April 21, 2022, from https://archive.ph/wQaBG
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Mead, A. (2021, May 12). Vaccinating Rural America: Q&A with Dr. Amanda Cohn. The Rural Monitor. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/rural-monitor/amanda-cohn-vaccination/
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CDC. (2021, December 17). Amanda Cohn | Biographies | About Us | NCBDDD | CDC. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://archive.ph/bixnF
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National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Membership and representation. (2020, December 18). Wayback Machine; Government of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20201218222110/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci/naci-membership-representation.html
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National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) (2020, February 3). Wayback Machine; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://archive.ph/GRljJ
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ACIP Updates on Vaccine Recommendations. (2017, November 4). Eventscribe. https://archive.ph/ZIcnE
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Cohn, A. (2011, April 6). Amanda Cohn, MD CDR, US Public Health Service National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases April 6, 2011 Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease - [PPTX Powerpoint]. India Document. https://archive.ph/sjgym
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON THE CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH VALUE OF VACCINES: TACKLING ISSUES OF ACCESS AND HESITANCY. (2021). In www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. National Academies Press (US). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK572616/
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Forum on Microbial Threats. (2021). The Critical Public Health Value of Vaccines (J. Liao, C. Minicucci, & A. Nicholson, Eds.). National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26134
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Terranella, A., Cohn, A., & Clark. (2011). Meningococcal conjugate vaccines: optimizing global impact. Infection and Drug Resistance, 161. https://doi.org/10.2147/idr.s21545
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Holshue, M. L., DeBolt, C., Lindquist, S., Lofy, K. H., Wiesman, J., Bruce, H., Spitters, C., Ericson, K., Wilkerson, S., Tural, A., Diaz, G., Cohn, A., Fox, L., Patel, A., Gerber, S. I., Kim, L., Tong, S., Lu, X., Lindstrom, S., & Pallansch, M. A. (2020). First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine, 382(10), 929–936. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2001191
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