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Working Group Leader
Research Department, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Germany
Amanda joined the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in 2019 and leads the Climate Change and Health Working Group. She graduated from Emory University in 2014 with a PhD in Nutrition and Health Sciences. Her dissertation focused on an evaluation of the government’s iron and folic acid supplementation of pregnant women during antenatal care in Bihar, India. After this she joined the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health and worked with the Food and Agriculture Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM) trial in Sylhet, Bangladesh. She was awarded a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and a Thrasher Early Career Award in 2016 to examine the etiology of anemia in the FAARM population. Her research interests include climate impacts on health and nutrition, maternal and child nutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, mixed methods, and program evaluation.