Awardee

Dr. Amanda P. Miller (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Global AIDS Prevention Research Training Program at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Department of Epidemiology, in the Fielding School of Public Health. She received her MS in Global Health Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco and her PhD in Public Health from the University of California, San Diego. Amanda’s research has primarily focused on the intertwined epidemics of HIV, substance use and related co-morbidities (e.g., poor mental health, intimate partner violence) that both increase risk of HIV infection and are associated with adverse health outcomes among persons living with HIV. Her current work is focused on understanding drivers of alcohol use among pregnant women in South Africa to inform intervention programming to address this HIV risk behavior in a population that experiences a heavy burden of both alcohol use and incident HIV. She is currently supported by a NIMH training grant (T32-MH080634).