Office: Building A Room 107,
Office Tele: 718-518-4429
Email: aamnie@hostos.cuny.edu
Associate Professor & Health Education Unit Coordinator
Dr. Amnie is an accomplished public health and medical educator with over two decades of clinical, public health, and academic experience. He serves as Associate Professor and Health Education Unit Coordinator in the Education Department at CUNY Hostos Community College, where he integrates his extensive expertise to advance health education, community engagement, and innovative pedagogy.
He holds a Doctor of Education (EdD) in Health Education from Teachers College, Columbia University; a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Global Health with a focus on Infectious Diseases from Emory University; and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Healthcare Management from West Texas A&M University. As an International Medical Graduate, he earned his Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Jimma University and completed specialty training in General Surgery at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He is also a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES®), reflecting advanced professional competence in health education and promotion.
Dr. Amnie’s teaching portfolio is broad and interdisciplinary, encompassing courses such as Medical Terminology, Introduction to Community Health, Nutrition, Prevention of Substance Use and Abuse, Interpersonal Relations and Team Building, Health and the Young Child, and Contemporary Health Issues. He has also taught Anatomy and Physiology I and II (lecture and lab) in the Natural Sciences Department. Committed to accessible and innovative learning, he has developed online Open Educational Resource textbooks for HLT 214 (Substance Use and Abuse) and HLT 111 (Health and the Young Child), and has delivered instruction across fully online, hybrid, and face-to-face modalities since 2017. Additionally, he has mentored faculty, contributed to online course design, and served as an evaluator of digital course offerings.
Dr. Amnie’s research focuses on the prevention of high-risk health behaviors and the science of behavioral change, emphasizing novel strategies to influence health outcomes at individual, family, and community levels. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in public health, health education, and health promotion. He serves as Academic Editor for
PLOS ONE JOURNAL and has completed over 300 manuscript reviews since 2018, reflecting his dedication to scholarly rigor and peer-reviewed excellence.
A committed professional, Dr. Amnie holds memberships in the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education, and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. His career is marked by sustained contributions to public health education, research, and leadership, underscoring his passion for advancing community health and fostering the next generation of health professionals.
Conference Presentations
Amnie, A. G., Emerson, P., McFarland, D., King, J., Miri, E., & Dickman, L. (2018). An impact evaluation of two rounds of mass drug administration on the prevalence of active trachoma: A clustered cross sectional survey.
Plos one,
13(8), e0201911. 16th Annual Unite for Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, APRIL 13-14, 2019.
Amnie, A. (2018). An Investigation of Predictors of Self-efficacy to Cope with Stress and Implications for Health Education Practice. Teachers College of Columbia University Educational Leadership and Data Analytics. Summit. June 8, 2018. Teachers College, Columbia University