Alexandra Medley | Associate Director for Antimicrobial Resistance
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Medley, Alexandra (CDC/NCEZID/DFWED/OD) - Dr. Alexandra Medley is a veterinary epidemiologist and the current Associate Director for antimicrobial resistance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Foodborne Waterborne and Environmental Diseases. Prior to working at CDC, Dr. Medley worked on canine rabies prevention and control in low- and middle-income countries. In her time at CDC, she has worked on global border health including refugee and migrant health, outbreak responses including Ebola virus disease, cholera, mpox and COVID-19, WASH (water and sanitation hygiene), and enteric and fungal pathogens associated with food, water, animal contact and the environment. Most of their career and of their work has involved taking a One Health approach, an approach that is critical to addressing antimicrobial resistance where the intersection of humans, animals, and the environment is especially complex. She received her Bachelors in Music from Oberlin College, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Master of Public Health from The Ohio State University, and she is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventative Medicine.