Amy Flowers, Analytic Insight President
Amy Flowers, PhD has over 20 years of experience in program evaluation and public opinion research. She has extensive experience analyzing qualitative data and presenting qualitative research results. Additionally, her visualization expertise includes GIS mapping and social network analysis. She is the founder and president of Analytic Insight, a consulting research firm. Dr. Flowers has recently used qualitative visualization techniques to present teenage views of tobacco and electronic cigarette use. She is part of the qualitative team on the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study in the U.S., a collaboration between the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Flowers is a skilled speaker and presenter with invitations to speak at the Centers for Excellence in Disability Research (CEDR) conference, sponsored jointly by DHHS and Mathematica, as well as at theNational Home and Community-Based Services Conference sponsored by the Administration on Aging (AoA) and the National Association of States United for Aging and Disabilities (NASUAD).Dr. Flowers earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Southern California and her Bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Additionally, Dr. Flowers has been certified in qualitative interviewing techniques by the RIVA institute, the gold-standard in interviewer training, and is skilled in the use of NVIVO software for qualitative data analysis.