Kat Theall is a Professor at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in the new Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Science with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology. She is the Director of the Tulane Mary Amelia Center for Women’s Health Equity Research and Senior Director of the Tulane Violence Prevention Institute. Read more
As a social epidemiologist, her research focuses on reducing health inequities by understanding and altering built and social neighborhood environments and social policies for better health in underserved populations locally, nationally, and internationally. With a strong base in community partnered participatory research aimed at addressing social determinants of health and the processes that shape these determinants, she is involved in research, programming, and translational work for improved health and well-being through an interdisciplinary lens.
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Sean Valles
Sean A. Valles is Associate Professor and Director of the Michigan State University Center for Bioethics and Social Justice. He is author of the 2018 book, Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a New Public Health Era (Routledge Press), and co-editor (with Quill R. Kukla) of the Oxford University Press book series, “Bioethics for Social Justice”. He is a philosopher of health, focusing on the evidentiary and ethical complexities of how social context shapes health.
Professor Lee is broadly interested in the social determinants and consequences of population health and health disparities, with a particular focus on race/ethnicity, poverty, race-related stress, and the family.
Dr. Katherine Theall is a Professor of Epidemiology at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Read more
As a social epidemiologist, Theall’s research focuses on reducing health inequities by understanding and altering built and social contexts (e.g., neighborhood and interpersonal environments) for better health in marginalized populations locally, nationally, and internationally. She directs the Tulane Mary Amelia Women’s Center and is Senior Director of the Tulane Violence Prevention Institute. She also directs the HRSA-supported Tulane Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Epidemiology Doctoral Training program and the postdoctoral and junior faculty MatCH Program. Dr. Theall has a long-standing interest in interdisciplinary research and practice and has received funding from the CDC, NIH, HRSA and private foundations such as the Robert Wood Johnson and W.K. Kellogg Foundations. She has published over 150 peer reviewed papers and authored or co-authored several book chapters. With a strong base in community partnered participatory research aimed at addressing social determinants of health and the processes that shape these determinants, she continues to find ways to disseminate her team’s work and turn it into action.
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Sean Valles
Sean A. Valles is Associate Professor and Director of the Michigan State University Center for Bioethics and Social Justice. He is author of the 2018 book, Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a New Public Health Era (Routledge Press), and co-editor (with Quill R. Kukla) of the Oxford University Press book series, “Bioethics for Social Justice”. He is a philosopher of health, focusing on the evidentiary and ethical complexities of how social context shapes health.
