CDR Roxanne Adeuya, Ph.D., P.E.

EPAC Events Subcommittee Chair

CDR Roxanne Adeuya serves as a Branch Director at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) in Rockville, MD. She is responsible for foreign inspectional work‐planning processes and numerous collaborative initiatives across FDA. She leads discussions, spearheads complex projects, including process improvements to ensure globally manufactured human and animal food products, regulated by FDA, are safe for consumption. She manages a team of 11 and provides leadership in business process evaluation and data analytics used to develop requirements and business rules for enterprise systems applications.

 CDR Adeuya began her Commissioned Corps career in 2014 as a Lieutentant with FDA working as a Consumer Safety Officer. Prior to joining FDA and Commisioned Corps, CDR Adeuya was a civil engineer and district conservationist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource and Conservation Service (USDA‐NRCS) and a research hydrologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). At the USDA, in her role as an engineer she was responsible for the overall planning, design, installation, and maintenance of water storage and irrigation systems; while as a district conservationist, she managed a county field office with a myriad of responsibilities including developing conservation contracts, providing technical advice and assistance to producers, and collaborating with federal and state agency partners. At EPA, her portfolio of expertise was expanded with research  that focused on hydrologic and contaminant transport assessments in agricultural environments.

CDR Adeuya obtained her Master and PhD in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering from  North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She is a member of the Society of American Military Engineers and is a licensed professional engineer (Arkansas).

Additional Information

• Email address: roxanne.adeuya@fda.hhs.gov                                                                                               
• Current duty station: Rockville, MD.