Amy Pienta

Background

About Amy Pienta

As a Research Professor at the University of Michigan and the Director of Business and Collection Development at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Amy Pienta leads the organization's 10-person research faculty and her own research and data infrastructure projects that facilitate data sharing and reuse across various domains of social science and health research. With over 15 years of experience conducting large-scale, federally-funded research projects, she has established herself as an effective leader in data stewardship and building valuable data and research infrastructure. Pienta's research focuses on incentives and barriers to data sharing and open science and substantive research questions about inequalities and disparities in health and addiction. She collaborates with national and international partners to build data repositories, platforms, and tools that enable researchers to access, analyze, and disseminate high-quality data. She is affiliated with several research centers and institutes at the University of Michigan, where she contributes to advancing the state of the art in data science and global health equity.