James Mancuso MD, DrPH, MPH (Chair, Department of PMB)

Education

M.D., USUHS
MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene
DrPH, USUHS

Biography

Dr. James (Jamie) Mancuso retired after 31 years of active duty service as an Army Colonel in 2023 and has served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) since 2019. Originally from Boston's North Shore, Dr. Mancuso completed medical school and a doctorate of public health at USU, residency in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and a Master of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Mancuso has had a wide breadth of public health leadership and experience, including at the local, national, and international levels. He served as Chief Consultant to the Army Surgeon General for Preventive Medicine and on the Board of Regents for the American College of Preventive Medicine. He has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, is board certified in both Preventive Medicine and Occupational Medicine, holds a Certificate of Knowledge in Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. His diverse research interests include tuberculosis, HIV, and other communicable and emerging infectious diseases in military and civilian populations.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

Deployments to Iraq (Operation Desert Storm-1990/1 and Operation Iraqi Freedom-2003), Pakistan (Operation Lifeline-2005/6), Japan (Operation Tomodachi-2011), and Liberia (Operation United Assistance-2015)

Specialty Leader (Consultant) in Preventive Medicine, US Army, 2017-2021

Chief, Epidemiology & Analysis Section, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, Silver Spring, MD, 2018-2019

Director, Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, U.S. Army Medical Research Directorate-Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016-2018

Director, Division of Tropical Public Health, Uniformed Services University (USU), Bethesda, MD, 2013-2016

Program Director, Preventive Medicine Residency, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Silver Spring, MD, 2009-2013

Mid-Atlantic Regent, Board of the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), 2012-2015

US Army Surgeon General's “A” proficiency designator, 2014

Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, 2000

CAPT Hooper Memorial Preventive Medicine Award, USU, 1998

Representative Bibliography

Mancuso JD, Ahmed AE. Coverage of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) within the active duty U.S. military, 2023. MSMR. 2024 Mar 20;31(3):13-16. PMID: 38621257

Mancuso JD, Ahmed AE, Rossi KR. Tobacco and nicotine use among active component U.S. military service members: a comparison of 2018 estimates from the Health Related Behaviors Survey and the Periodic Health Assessment. MSMR. 2024 Mar 20;31(3):2-12. PMID: 38621256

Mancuso, J.D., Young, J., Rusiecki, J., Stahlman, S., Schvey, N., Randolph, T., Wilson, C., Witkop, C., Hyde, P., Green, A., Santiago, P., Shell, D., & Sbrocco, T. Advancing Health Equity in the US Military. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice 2023; 16(1):38-50.

Hamrick JE, Ahmed AE, Witkop CT, Manetz KE, and Mancuso JD. Unintended pregnancy among U.S. military active duty servicemembers: HRBS estimates for 2018 and trends since 2005. Contraception 2022 Oct 12:S0010-7824(22)00388-2. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2022.09.132. PMID: 36243127

Erin L. Winkler, Shauna L. Stahlman, Natalie Y. Wells, Aparna V. Chauhan, Kayli M. Hiban, Amy A. Costello, and Mancuso JD. COVID-19 Booster Vaccination in the U.S. Military, August 2021 to January 2022. Am J Prev Med 2022 Aug 29:S0749-3797(22)00412-3. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2022.07.017. PMID: 36123230

Young JM, Stahlman SL, Clausen SS, Bova ML, and Mancuso JD. Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 infection and hospitalization in the active component U.S. military. Am J Pub Health 2021; 111(12):2194-2201. PMID: 34878873

Mancuso JD. Tuberculosis Screening and Control in the US Military in War and Peace. Am J Public Health 2017;107(1):60-67. PMID: 27854533

Mancuso JD, Diffenderfer JM, Ghassemieh BJ, Horne DJ, Kao T. The Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in the United States. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2016;194(4):501-9. PMID: 26866439

Cohen RL, Li Y, Giese R, Mancuso JD. An evaluation of PEPFAR’s Effect on Health Systems Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa. JAIDS 2012 Dec 18; 62(4):471-9. PMID: 23254150

Mancuso JD, Tobler SK, and Keep LW. Pseudoepidemics of Tuberculin Skin Test Conversions in the US Army after Recent Deployments. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2008;177(11):1285-9.