Medical officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Ashley Styczynski, MD, MPH, is a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the International Infection Control Program where she oversees a portfolio of studies examining the burden of and risk factors for antimicrobial resistance across communities and hospitals in low- and middle-income countries. She completed medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago and obtained her Master of Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Following internal medicine residency at George Washington University, Dr. Styczynski joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC where she was assigned to the Poxvirus and Rabies Branch. She then completed a fellowship in infectious disease at Stanford University with a research focus on antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention and control, supported in part by a Fogarty International Fellowship for which she was based in Bangladesh. She returned to the CDC in 2021 where she has continued to work on these issues across a global context. She also maintains her affiliation with Stanford as an adjunct clinical assistant professor and co-director of a global health course for residents and fellows.