Abigail Gallucci is the Associate Director for the Division of Epidemiology in the New York State Department of Health. Prior to her working in the NYSDOH, she had a long career at the Albany Medical Center where she worked for 33 years, 6 of them in Hospital Epidemiology. It’s at Albany Medical Center (AMC) where her love of all things Epidemiology began. She was the Director of the HIV Education and Testing program at AMC for 10 years and went on to be the Practice Manager of all the Primary Care Clinics at AMC. In 2017 Abbie went to work at the New York State Department of Health as the Associate Director of HIV Epidemiology where she ran the Surveillance Program for the Rest of State.
In March 2020, the world changed. Abbie was deployed in the field for 11 months to set up the COVID testing drive-thru sites across New York State. At the end of her Deployment she joined the Division of Epidemiology as the Associate Director. The Division is the NYS Health Commissioner’s Surveillance team for Infectious Disease throughout the state. Epidemiology, while exhausting, is thrilling and she is thankful to collaborate and continue to build this critical workforce in our everchanging world.