Amie is a senior research director in the Public Health department at NORC. She has over 15 years of experience in the day-to-day management of telephone, web, and mail surveys, large and small. She has a particular interest in survey design and questionnaire development to improve data quality and response rates. Amie has a PhD in Sociology with a specialization in social demography from the University of Michigan. She is a former NIH Predoctoral Trainee at the University of Michigan Population Studies Center, with additional training in survey management.

Amie currently serves as a manager of the National Immunization Survey (NIS), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is the primary vehicle for childhood vaccination surveillance in the U.S. The NIS consists of a large RDD telephone survey, followed by a paper and pencil follow-up to nominated vaccination providers. Amie provides day-to-day oversight of CATI data collection and the Provider Record Check (PRC) component of the project and manages financial, contractual, and compliance tasks for NIS.

She is also project pirector of the Healthy Illinois Survey project, a large, multi-year, multimode, ABS survey of health behaviors for the State of Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). As project director, Amie is responsible for overseeing the project from end-to-end, including planning, contracting/budget, client and vendor relationships, data collection development and operations, and management of deliverables.