Amanda Black is a Northern Irish epidemiologist who is the associate director of

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in the

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's division of

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and genetics.

Life

Black received a undergraduate degree in biomedical science (2001), Master of Medical Laboratory Science (2002), and Ph.D. in epidemiology and public health (2005) from

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's faculty of medicine and health sciences. Her dissertation was titled ''Secular trends in the physical health and psychological well-being of students attending Queen's University Belfast''. Her dissertation was supervised by Peter McCarron,

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, and Michael Donnelly of the department of epidemiology and public health. In 2006, Black was selected for a

(NCI)

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fellowship. During her fellowship, Black was awarded a Master of Public Health (2008) by the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. Black's fellowship was in the NCI early detection research group, where she worked on the prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancer screening trial (PLCO). In 2009, Black joined division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG) as a staff scientist. She is associate director of biological resources. In the NCI office of the director, Black oversees management of the biological specimen resources of the DCEG and supports the planning of new prospective multi-center cohort studies. She is a member of the PLCO leadership team.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Black, Amanda Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century scientists from Northern Ireland 21st-century British women scientists Northern Ireland emigrants to the United States Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Alumni of the University of Manchester National Institutes of Health people Cancer epidemiologists Women epidemiologists Epidemiologists from Northern Ireland