Kate Burrows, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago

Dr. Kate Burrows is an environmental health scientist whose research focuses on the relationship between climate- and weather-related extremes and public health. She has interdisciplinary training in environmental epidemiology (PhD, Yale University School of the Environment) and social-behavioral sciences (MPH, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health), which allows her to investigate global health issues from a unique perspective that incorporates sociocultural determinants of health and environmental exposures.

Dr. Burrows is a mixed-methods scientist. She conducts qualitative and community-based research as well as quantitative research using big data at the national level. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, Dr. Burrows was a Voss Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute at Brown University for Environment and Society.