Amanda Simanek

Dr. Amanda M. Simanek is a social epidemiologist who studies psychosocial determinants of infectious disease, links between infection and chronic disease and inter- and intra-generational pathways by which social inequities in health occur across the lifecourse and across generations. She is Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her current research focuses on the adverse effects of prenatal socioeconomic disadvantage on child health and is funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the Marmot Prince Mahidol Fellowship. Read more