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As the Acting Principal Deputy Director for the Office of Science, CAPT Abanyie helps to ensure OS advances its strategic and programmatic priorities to support the agency’s science.

Previous experience

CAPT Abanyie served as the Deputy Director of ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø/ATSDR’s Commissioned Corps Liaison Office, where she helped manage all aspects of the careers of the approximately 800 United States Public Health Service (USPHS) officers at the agency.

CAPT Abanyie's ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø and United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps career started as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in 2012 in the Parasitic Disease Branch (PDB) of the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria (DPDM). During her four years with PDB, she assisted and led the branch's efforts investigating transplant-associated strongyloidiasis, Cyclospora outbreak responses, post-treatment surveillance of lymphatic filariasis in Ghana and Bangladesh, and the Ethiopian Onchocerciasis Specimen Bank. As a Pediatric Infectious Diseases physician, Dr. Abanyie championed pediatric healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic stewardship in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion from 2016 to 2019. She returned to DPDM in May 2019 as the lead medical epidemiologist for the Domestic Response Team of the Malaria Branch. In this role, she led efforts to ensure regulatory compliance with FDA standards for drug protocols, providing hospitals with lifesaving drugs for the timely treatment of patients with severe malaria. She has participated in more than 10 national and international USPHS and agency emergency response deployments throughout her career, including serving for 19 months on the COVID-19 Response (2020−2021).

Education

CAPT Abanyie earned her undergraduate degree with honors in chemistry from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She earned her medical and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. CAPT Abanyie completed her general pediatric residency at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and her Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Atlanta Federal Executive Board's Leadership Government Program, a Certified Life and Career Coach, and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.