Amy L. Anderson has over 25 years of experience in nursing—practicing, teaching, and consulting for professional organizations, nongovernmental organizations, universities, and charitable organizations. Dr. Anderson is a professor at Baylor University.
Dr. Anderson is a former Visiting Fellow at The Heritage Foundation focused on health care policy and served as expert counsel to the National Coronavirus Recovery Commission on COVID-19. Dr. Anderson was an inaugural member of the Global Think Tank Townhall convened by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania where she worked on global policy solutions to the pandemic crisis. Dr. Anderson’s policy work has focused on achieving a public health strategy that balances protecting lives and livelihoods, analyzing the impact of health care reform on the health care workforce, and proposing policy solutions that improve patient access to quality health care in a free market system. Her op-eds have been featured on Fox Business, The Daily Signal, Real Clear Health, The Washington Times, The National Interest, Washington Examiner, Newsday, and the Tribune wire.
Dr. Anderson holds a D.N.P. with a focus in Executive Leadership from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and is a registered nurse. She is a former International Council of Nurses Global Nurse Leadership Institute Policy Program Scholar and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.