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Amanda Lowell, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor Adjunct and Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine. She specializes in maternal substance use disorders (SUDs) and their impact on child development, focusing on evidence-based interventions like Mothering from the Inside Out. Her research integrates neuroscience, psychology, and public health to address addiction, adversity, and attachment in vulnerable populations.
Education: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (University of Central Florida, 2017), Postdoctoral Fellowship (Yale University, 2018), and predoctoral internship (Yale University, 2017). She is licensed as a psychologist.
Research interests include maternal neural responses to infant cues, mentalization-based parenting interventions, and the intersection of substance use with caregiving. Her work emphasizes translational research and community-based implementation.
Key achievements include leading randomized efficacy trials for parenting interventions and securing grants such as the NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Program (2019) and the 2022 Pathways Research Award. She collaborates with institutions like the NICU GRAD Program and the Center for Brain & Mind Health.
Her interventions aim to support mothers in recovery, with a focus on racial equity through adaptations for Black and Latina populations. She also addresses global gaps in assessing pregnancy-specific trauma and the impact of prenatal stress on parental behavior.
Awards and recognition include the 2023 Viola B. Bernard Prize in Social Innovation for adapting interventions to intersectional experiences of mothers with OUD.
