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Anthony Fauci
American immunologist (born 1940)
"Fauci" redirects here. For the 2021 documentary film, see Fauci (film). For other people sharing this surname, see Fauci (surname).
Anthony Stephen Fauci (FOW-chee;[5] born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022.[6] Fauci was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals from 1983 to 2002.[7][8] In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR.[9]
Fauci received his undergraduate education at the College of the Holy Cross and his Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University. As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fauci served the American public health sector for more than fifty yea
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Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Let’s talk about your childhood and early years. Where did you grow up and what was it like?
Anthony Fauci: I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, at a time when there was a lot of community — I wouldn’t say segregation, but division — where the neighborhood of Bensonhurst was almost exclusively an Italian-American neighborhood: people who were either born in Italy, and moved to New York, who then had children who then had children. So I was second generation.
My father was born in New York City — was actually born in Little Italy in Manhattan. His father and mother came over from Italy at the turn of the century, in the very early 20th century. They worked in New York City, moved to Brooklyn, which at the time was a move up, to go from the Little Italy section. And that’s where my mother and father grew up. My mother’s parents, very similar to my father’s parents, again, both were born in Italy and immigrated to the United States in the very early part of the 20th century, and again, settled in the L
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Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci:
Leading the fight against infectious diseases for nearly four decades
As the COVID-19 pandemic evolved in 2020, Dr. Anthony “Tony” Fauci became a familiar face and voice of reason as part of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. While Dr. Fauci was previously unknown to many Americans, he has been an integral part of public health and infectious disease responses for several decades.
Early Life
Anthony Fauci was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1940 to first generation Italian American parents. His mother and father married shortly after high school, while both were in college. His father became a pharmacist and eventually owned his own drugstore. From a young age, Tony would help his father by delivering items from the drugstore throughout the neighborhood. While in high school and college, he was drawn to the problem-solving aspect of science, but also had an inherent interest in people — how they interacted, the history of people and civilizations, and the humanities. He decided to pursue a career in medicine as a way of joining these inte
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