Staff Bio
Amy Lansky, PhD, MP
Amy Lansky, PhD, MPH, is the Director of the Office of Scientific Evidence and Recommendations (OSER) in the Office of Science.
Role at CDC
Dr. Lansky oversees the Community Guide Program and the Guidelines and Recommendations Team, which provides agency-wide support for developing high-quality guidelines and recommendations. As director of the Community Guide Program, she oversees the prioritization, production, and communication of evidence-based systematic reviews on the effectiveness and economics of public health programs, services, and other interventions. This includes supporting the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF), disseminating CPSTF recommendations and findings, and building and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with partners.
Previous experience
Since joining CDC in 1991, Dr. Lansky’s achievements include developing and evaluating behavioral interventions for HIV prevention, conducting epidemiologic research to inform HIV prevention programs and policy development, and designing and implementing surveillance systems.
She also served as deputy director for surveillance, epidemiology, and laboratory science in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at CDC from 2008–2014. From 2015–2017 she served as director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy and as senior policy advisor in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Achievements
Dr. Lansky has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and CDC’s flagship publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), about issues such as population size estimates for groups at risk for HIV, sampling methods for reaching populations at high risk, and uptake of HIV prevention guidelines.