Amanda Miller
Pronouns: She/Her
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
SDSU
Bio
Dr. Amanda Miller is a public health scientist and global health researcher whose work focuses on strengthening health systems to address complex, interrelated health challenges. Trained in public health and epidemiology, with dual expertise in behavioral and epidemiologic methods, she has over a decade of experience leading research in disproportionately burdened populations across both low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income country (HIC) settings, with ongoing projects in Uganda, South Africa, and San Diego County.
Her research has two primary foci: (1) building mental health capacity through scalable evidence-based interventions (EBIs), and (2) strengthening infectious disease prevention and treatment systems, including HIV care and vaccination across the lifespan. She applies implementation science, health behavior theory, and community-engaged approaches to design, adapt, and evaluate interventions that expand behavioral health services and advance infectious disease prevention and treatment. Central to her work is bridging research and policy to ensure that effective interventions are integrated into existing health systems and sustained at scale.
Current projects include adapting transdiagnostic mental health interventions for adolescent girls and young women in Uganda, developing alcohol reduction strategies for expectant fathers living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, testing biomarker-informed approaches to support alcohol self-management, and evaluating a service hub for survivors of domestic violence in San Diego County. She is also leading work to strengthen vaccine confidence and uptake across the lifespan in Uganda.
Through these projects, Dr. Miller seeks to generate evidence that informs family- and community-centered programming, promotes equitable health policy, and strengthens systems of care to reduce health disparities across diverse global contexts.
Education
- BA, Physical Anthropology, UCSB
- MS in Global Health Sciences, UCSF
- PhD in Public Health through the SDSU-UCSD joint doctoral program.
- NIAID funded Inter-CFAR Fellowship in Implementation Science, JHU
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global HIV Traineeship, UCLA
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: Alcohol Research in the Science Practitioner Model, SDSU-
UCSD
Areas of Specialization
- Global health
- HIV
- Alcohol Use
- Health Systems Strengthening
- Mental Health
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Implementation Science
- Vaccine Preventable Diseases
- Health Equity
Interests
Dr. Amanda Miller’s research interests center on how health systems can more effectively respond to complex, interrelated health challenges. Her work has two primary foci: (1) building mental health capacity through scalable evidence-based interventions (EBIs), and (2) strengthening infectious disease prevention and treatment systems, including HIV care and vaccination across the lifespan.
She is particularly drawn to questions about how behavioral and biomedical interventions can be integrated into routine service delivery, how community engagement can shape contextually relevant programming, and how evidence can be translated into policy to promote equity. Her long-term agenda includes advancing methodological work at the intersection of behavioral and epidemiologic sciences, testing models that bridge prevention and treatment, and identifying strategies to embed EBIs into health systems at scale. Ultimately, her goal is to promote equitable access to behavioral health services and infectious disease prevention through scalable, evidence-based programming that reduces health disparities and strengthens systems of care.