Anthony Stephen Fauci ˈfaʊtʃi born December 24 1940 is an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID since 1984 Since January 2020 he has been one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the 201920 coronavirus pandemic in the United States As a physician with the National Institutes of Health NIH of the United States he has served public health in various capacities for over fifty years He has made contributions to HIVAIDS research and other immunodeficiencies both as a scientist and as the head of the NIAID at the NIH From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia