Staff Bio
Althea Grant-Lenzy, PhD (CAPT, USPHS)
Captain Althea Grant-Lenzy serves as the Principal Deputy Director for the Office of Science (OS).
Previous experience
Dr. Grant-Lenzy has more than 20 years of experience in public health. She joined CDC and the U.S. Public Health Service in 2002 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer assigned to the Division of Reproductive Health. After completing EIS, she served as an epidemiologist in the division's Maternal and Infant Health Branch.
Dr. Grant-Lenzy served as the epidemiology and surveillance team leader in the Division of Blood Disorders in the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. In 2010, Dr. Grant-Lenzy became the division's chief of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch.
She served as senior advisor for science for CDC's Deputy Director for Non-Infectious Diseases. In July 2020, she became the career management officer for the CDC's Commissioned Corps Activity. She then went on to serve as acting deputy director of science at National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
Education
Dr. Grant-Lenzy's degrees include her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Rutgers University and her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Emory University. She completed her postdoctoral training in cell biology at Yale University and an Association of Public Health Laboratories Emerging Infectious Disease Postdoctoral Fellowship at CDC.