Dr. Amanda Elmore is a Maternal and Child Health Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida College of Public Health. After completing her Bachelor’s in Clinical Laboratory Sciences from the University of Kentucky, Dr. Elmore earned her Masters of Public Health from Florida State University and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of South Carolina as a NIH T32 Predoctoral Fellow. Dr. Elmore has over 5 years of experience in the public sector of maternal and child health and serves on the Board of the National Birth Defects Prevention Network. Her research focuses on reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology with a focus on maternal substance use, prenatal substance exposure, and long-term health outcomes for affected mother-infant dyads. She strives to improve health outcomes for families affected by substance use through translational, evidence-based, and stigma-informed approaches to surveillance, prevention, and treatment.