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Role at ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø

As acting director of OS, Dr. Grant-Lenzy is critical to helping ensure OS advances its strategic and programmatic priorities to support the agency's science. In her regular role, she serves as the principal deputy director for OS.

Previous experience

Dr. Grant-Lenzy joined ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø and the US 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.

She later served as the epidemiology and surveillance team lead 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. From 2014–2020, she served as senior advisor for science for ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø's Deputy Director for Non-Infectious Diseases.

In 2020, she became the career management officer for the ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø's Commissioned Corps Activity. Subsequently, she served as acting deputy director of science at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) in 2021 and as director of the Office of Science within NCIRD in 2023.

In 2024, Dr. Grant-Lenzy joined the Office of Science as the principal deputy director.

Education

Dr. Grant-Lenzy holds an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Rutgers University and a doctoral degree 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 ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø. Dr. Grant-Lenzy is a Six Sigma Black Belt and is currently pursuing a master's in strategic studies at the US Army War College.