2023 – Kathryn Himmelstein
Kathryn (Kayty) Himmelstein is a fellow in Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, where she provides clinical infectious disease care and conducts research. She is also an affiliate of the hospital’s Center for Global Health. She is interested in strategies for modeling radical policy interventions to promote racial and economic justice in health. Her prior research has examined disproportionate punishment of LGBTQ youth by schools, police, and courts; the projected impact on women healthcare workers of raising the minimum wage to $15/hour; financial underinvestment in hospitals serving patient of color; and patterns of discrimination in surgical care against people living with HIV and hepatitis C.
2022 – Kathryn Leifheit
Kathryn Leifheit, PhD MSPH is a social epidemiologist who studies social policies as levers to improve population health and promote health equity. In particular, her research focuses on housing policies and evictions as determinants of health for children and communities. Leifheit completed her postdoctoral fellowship in health services research at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and her PhD in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health. She will join the UCLA Department of Pediatrics as an Assistant Professor in July, 2022.
2021 – Alicia Riley
Alicia is a sociologist with training in public health and Latin American Studies. She is currently a T32 postdoctoral scholar in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco and, starting July 2021, will be an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Core Faculty in Global and Community Health at University of California Santa Cruz. Read more
2020 – Caitlin Daniel
Caitlin received her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 2017. Her work seeks to understand the origins of dietary disparities by examining how parents across the socioeconomic spectrum decide what to feed their children. Integrating insights from cultural sociology, public health, and behavioral economics, this research highlights how parents’ food choices arise from the combined influences of their material circumstances and their ideas about food, family, childhood, and money. Caitlin is currently a postdoctoral affiliate at the Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.
2019 – Lucie Kalousova
Lucie received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Health Policy from the University of Michigan in 2017. Her work examines socioeconomic disparities in health behaviours and health outcomes in the United States and in Europe, focusing on how social policy contributes to their elimination or entrenchment. She is currently a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford and will become Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Riverside in fall 2019.