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Amanda Dettmer, PhD
Research Scientist
Yale Child Study Center
Bio
Amanda Dettmer, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center, where she leads the Human and Animal Integrated Research (HAIR) Lab. She is a comparative psychologist and behavioral neuroscientist with over 20 years of experience studying the impact of early life factors and individual differences on health across the lifespan. Dr. Dettmer's research program examines the impact of early life factors and individual differences on health across the lifespan. For this research, she takes a comparative approach: she relies on nonhuman primates as translational models for human child development, employing multidisciplinary approaches including ethology, neuroendocrinology, immunology, and epigenetics.
Dr. Dettmer also works with human populations, including as co-principal investigator of a study examining chronic stress in children as a function of school/educational setting. Dr. Dettmer is the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation’s (YCCI) lead and voting member for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Integration Across the Lifespan Enterprise Committee. Dr. Dettmer is the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Developmental Psychobiology and is the Past-President of Division 6 of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology, for 2023-24. She serves as the APA Division 6 representative to the Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education. Dr. Dettmer was the 2017-18 APA Executive Branch Science Fellow, during which she worked at the National Center for Education Research at the Institute of Education Sciences, the independent research arm of the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Dettmer earned her BS in zoology from the University of Washington in Seattle, and her MS (2007) and PhD (2009) in behavioral neuroscience from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Committees
PRIM&R Board of Directors
PRIM&R Membership Committee
PRIM&R Finance Committee