Nicole Alexander-Scott is an American infectious disease specialist who served as Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health from April 2015 to January 2022.

[4][5] Alexander-Scott graduated from an all-girls Catholic high school and attended Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology.

In 2005, she moved to Rhode Island to complete an infectious disease fellowship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

[7] Alexander-Scott served as a consultant to the Rhode Island Department of Health during the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

She was appointed Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health on April 16, 2015, succeeding Dr. Michael Fine.