Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA	MS	02/2001	Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD	BA	05/1998	Chemistry

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 its Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Under Amanda's leadership the Center for Health Communication launched a Public Health Creators program, which equips and inspires influential creators to spread evidence-based health information on social media. Using the program as a natural laboratory, her team conducts interdisciplinary, creator-engaged research to study how creators are reshaping health narratives and health behaviors, and what it means for society. In this work Amanda leverages two decades of experience in science and health journalism, media product development, and audience engagement.

Before joining Harvard's faculty, she worked as a science journalist and news executive 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.

• creator research
• health and science communication
• journalism