Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Email: apmiller@sdsu.edu
Education
- BA, Physical Anthropology, UCSB
- MS in Global Health Sciences, UCSF
- PhD in Public Health through the SDSU-UCSD joint doctoral program.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global HIV Traineeship, UCLA
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: Alcohol Research in the Science Practitioner Model, SDSU-
UCSD
Scholarly Areas
- Global health
- HIV
- Alcohol Use
- Mental Health
- Intimate partner violence
- Implementation science
- Health equity
Biography
Amanda P Miller Ph.D. is an Assistant Research Professor and Global Health researcher in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the San Diego State University School of Public Health. Her research interests are the intertwined epidemics of HIV, intimate partner violence (IPV) and mental health (including substance use). She has been conducting research on these public health issues in disproportionately burdened populations in low resource, high burden settings for 13 years with current projects in South Africa and Uganda. Dr. Miller’s work aims to understand and address the unique contextual factors that can serve as barriers to reducing alcohol use and experiences of IPV and improving mental health among persons at risk of HIV and those living with HIV, with the goal of developing tailored and sustainable programming that can reduce health disparities. She is also particularly interested in improving uptake and adherence to biomedical HIV prevention and treatment in populations at high risk of HIV infection and onward transmission.
Research Interests
Dr Amanda Miller’s long-term research interests are the intertwined epidemics of HIV,
intimate partner violence (IPV), mental health and substance use in high burden, low
resource settings. Specifically, she is interested in understanding contextual and cultural
barriers to optimal health outcomes among persons experiencing these interrelated
health issues and developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions that are
tailored to population and setting needs. Currently Dr. Miller has ongoing research
projects in South Africa and Uganda, which focus on addressing hazardous alcohol use,
as a stand-alone issue as well as an upstream driver of poor HIV care outcomes and
other sequelae (e.g. violence, depression, economic instability) to improve overall
health and well-being.
Publications
- For an up to date publications list see Google Scholar.
