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Amelia Van Pelt
Field:
Epidemiology, Global Health, Medical Social Sciences, Public Health
Focus Areas:
HIV/AIDS, Implementation Science
Contact:
Media Relations Contact:
Kristin Samuelson
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Associate Director of Research of Ryan Family Center for Global Primary Care
About
Areas of Focus
- Implementation science
- Global health
- Public health
Work/Research
- Applies implementation science to increase the uptake of evidence-based practices
- Increases access to interventions in resource-limited settings
- Collaborates across disease areas
- Builds capacity for public health, implementation science and global health
Career
Amelia Van Pelt is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences and the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science. She serves as the Associate Director of Research within the Havey Institute for Global Health and the Ryan Family Center for Global Primary Care.
As an implementation scientist and epidemiologist, her work focuses on increasing the uptake of evidence-based practices in resource-limited settings, primarily in low- and middle-income countries.
Van Pelt has experience collaborating with government, academic and not-for-profit institutions. Van Pelt has a record of NIH funding, peer-reviewed publications and awards, including the NIH Loan Repayment Award in health disparities research, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Distinguished Research Trainee Award and the Emerging Innovator in Collaborative Science.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish & Global Health, Culture, and Society; a certificate in Leadership; and a Master of Public Health in Global Health from Emory University. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania and her Postdoctoral Fellowship in Implementation Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern University.