Amy Lansky, PhD, MPH
Senior Advisor
Amy Lansky, PhD, MPH retired from the CDC after a 30+ year career in science, leadership, and strategy positions in HIV prevention, maternal and child health, guidelines development, and evidence-based programs and policies. Her achievements included evaluating behavioral interventions for HIV prevention, epidemiologic research to inform HIV prevention, and designing and implementing surveillance systems. She served as Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy and as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of National Drug Control Policy from 2015-2017. She also had scientific leadership roles in CDC emergency responses for COVID-19 and mpox. She has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and CDC’s MMWR.
Dr. Lansky volunteers for nonprofit organizations and the CDC Alumni and Friends network, serves in editor/reviewer roles for public health peer-reviewed journals, and is an adjunct instructor at the Gillings School of Global Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Selected publications:
Chattopadhyay SK, Jacob V, Hopkins D, Lansky A, Elder R, Cuellar A, Calonge N, Clymer J, and the Community Preventive Services Task Force. Community Guide Methods for systematic reviews of economic evidence. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2023;64(4):569-578.
Lansky A, Wethington HR, Mattick K, Chin MH, Alston A, Racine-Parshall J, Minor SL, Cobb J, Hopkins DP, and the Community Preventive Services Task Force. Priority topics for the Community Preventive Services Task Force, 2020–2025: A data-driven, partner-informed approach. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2022;62(6):e375-e378.
Lansky A, Wethington HR. Living systematic reviews and other approaches for updating evidence. American Journal of Public Health 2020;110(11):1687-1688.
DiNenno EA, Prejean J, Irwin K, Delaney KP, Bowles K, Martin T, Tailor A, Dumitru G, Mullins MM, Hutchinson AB, Lansky A. Recommendations for HIV screening of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men - United States, 2017. MMWR. 2017;66(31):830-832.
Lansky A, Finlayson T, Johnson C, Holtzman D, Wejnert C, Mitsch A, Gust D, Chen RT, Mizuno Y, Crepaz N. Estimating the number of persons who inject drugs in the United States by meta-analysis to calculate national rates of HIV and Hepatitis C Virus infections. PLOS ONE 2014;9(5): e97596.
View his full list of publications on PubMed.
