Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who served as top federal infectious disease expert for nearly 40 years and played a key role in navigating the United States through the COVID-19 pandemic, will join faculty at Georgetown University in Washington next month do.
Dr. Fauci, 82, has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and retired from the National Institutes of Health last year. He was also President Biden’s top coronavirus adviser, and served in that role. President Donald J. Trump.Georgetown announced his new job on monday.
Fauci will work at the Georgetown School of Medicine and the school’s McCourt School of Public Policy, the university said. A spokesperson for the city of Georgetown did not immediately respond to a request for details about what courses he would teach. A university statement said Dr. Fauci’s role in the medical school will be in the infectious diseases division, with a focus on teaching, research and patient care.
and NIH (National Institutes of Health)For decades, Dr. Fauci has overseen research on established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, as well as emerging infectious diseases such as Ebola, Zika and COVID-19. He was also the lead architect of the Presidential AIDS Relief Plan, a program that has provided life-saving treatment to more than 20 million people in 54 countries since its inception 20 years ago under President George W. Bush. rice field.
Dr. Fauci was already a prominent figure in public health officials when the coronavirus pandemic hit in early 2020, but the race to understand and respond to the virus quickly pushed him to the forefront of American life. . A regular attendance at White House briefings has made him a lifelong, gentle personality counselor for an anxious nation.
He was also polarizing. His job has put him in the awkward position of openly opposing Trump so often that he has become an enemy of the political right and a hero of the left.
In an interview with The New York Times last year, Dr. Fauci said he was “not political at all” and “didn’t like or seek the position of having to openly challenge the president of the United States.”
“The far right seems to think that I was purposefully enjoying it,” he said. “I did not do it.”
When Dr. Fauci retired last year, he said that if a medical center existed, he would speak publicly, write a memoir, and attend a university to treat patients.
About the memoir, Dr. Fauci told The Times that he wanted to write a “real” memoir that tells the story of his life, not just the national attention he received during the pandemic.
“I’d rather tell my whole story, from when I was growing up on the streets of Brooklyn to now,” he said. “But I don’t know. I’ve never written a book before.”
