Dr Amanda Neitzel

Amanda is a deputy director of evidence at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Research and Reform in Education (CRRE). She has expertise on school-based health interventions, literacy, meta-analysis, data management, and quantitative research design. While at the CRRE, she has worked on evaluations of school-based vision programmes with an emphasis on issues of implementation.

She has also conducted multiple systematic reviews, including reviews of elementary literacy as well as educational programmes for struggling readers. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Amanda was an elementary school teacher in a traditional public school and also served in the Peace Corps.