Mary Lou Clements-Mann (September 17, 1946 – September 2, 1998) was the founder and first Director of the Center for Immunization Research at the

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and is well known for her work in the areas of

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and

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Education

Clements-Mann graduated from

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in 1968 and received her medical degree from the

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in 1972. She also received a doctorate in tropical medicine from the

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in 1975 and a master's degree in public health, specifically epidemiology, from

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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

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from 1979 to 1985. During this time, she joined the university's Center for Vaccine Development. She later became the chief of the clinical studies section in 1985. Clements-Mann served as a member of the medical staff at

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and

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. In 1990, she was granted tenure as a professor in the department of international health with a joint appointment in the immunology and molecular biology departments. She was a member of the US Centers for Disease Control Advisory Committee on the Children's Vaccine Initiative and the

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's steering committee for HIV vaccine development. 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.

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