PROFILE

Amanda Dylina Morse is a research fellow with Queen’s Communities and Place, a research initiative within Queen’s University of Belfast, working on the Belfast Youth Development Study, a prospective cohort study which has explored the health and social lives of nearly 6,000 young people over the last 25 years. Her work also involves supporting the data literacy needs of communities by co-designing interactive data tools and solutions to support their health and wellness.

Her Ph.D. examined the role of social connection as a protective factor against suicide in adolescent boys and young men. She also holds a master of public health in community-oriented public health practice from the University of Washington School of Public Health.

Prior to coming to Queen’s, she worked as a surveillance epidemiologist in the United States and was a national subject matter expert on the use of syndromic surveillance data to monitor health care encounters for a variety of injury and violence topics. She is a clinical instructor at the University of Washington School of Public Health in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, as well as affiliate faculty at the University of Washington–Bothell in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences.

Her research and other scientific interests include monitoring and prevention of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, substance use, interpersonal violence, and unintentional injuries. She prefers cats.