Amanda is a principal in the Health Policy & Insights Practice at Economist Impact, based in London. She collaborates within a global, multidisciplinary team to lead and deliver robust, high-visibility research and analysis programs across the public and private global health ecosystem. Her main area of focus is unlocking the potential of health to drive growth and development at the population level, including across topics such as aging, healthspan and longevity; health security; AMR; health investment and finance; workforce wellbeing; and social and commercial determinants of health.
Amanda brings approaches such as systems thinking and design, strategic foresight, policy and comparative analysis, economic modeling, decision science, and translational research and writing to bridge the gap between evidence and practice. Prior to joining Economist Impact, she led a major health innovation initiative for the Surgeon General of the US Navy, and executed an economic study of cancer screening with the Ministry of Health in Greenland. Amanda has led and contributed to other global health initiatives in countries such as Brazil, Bangladesh and Haiti.
Amanda holds a masters degree in Health Policy & Clinical Practice from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She has also received training as a foresight practitioner from the School of International Futures.
