Amanda (she/her) is the senior director of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Health Communication and a lecturer in the school’s Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences.
In a world where so many of us get health information from social media, Amanda is equipping and inspiring influential creators to spread public health information in an increasingly fragmented world. Her Harvard Chan team is also conducting cutting-edge communication research to study the impacts of such public health x creator partnerships.
In that work she leverages two decades of experience in science and health journalism, media product development, and audience engagement. Before joining Harvard’s faculty, Amanda worked as a science journalist and newsroom leader at C&EN, an award-winning nonprofit science news outlet published by the American Chemical Society. She currently serves on the board of Science To People, a nonprofit developing an AI research assistant for creators. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University and a Masters of Science in Chemistry from MIT.
