Katrina Walsemann is a professor and Roger C. Lipitz chair in health policy in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a faculty associate at the Maryland Population Research Center. She is also MPI (with Pamela Herd and Sanjay Asthana) of the NIA-funded Network on Education, Biosocial Pathways and Dementia across Diverse Populations.
Walsemann is a population health scientist with a particular focus on how the U.S. education system shapes individuals’ physical, mental, and cognitive health, independent from and in relation to other structural factors such as race/ethnicity, gender, and social class. She has published extensively on how early school environments affect health and health behavior across the life course as well as how student debt influences the psychosocial health of young adults and their aging parents. Her current research explores how state and local educational contexts during childhood relate to cognitive impairment and dementia risk later in life. Fundamental to her research is an understanding of the historical and contemporary social policies that can create, reduce, or eliminate racial and social inequities in population health.
She holds a PhD and MPH in Health Behavior from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health and completed a National Institute of Aging (NIA) post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center.
- Population health, aging and the life course, dementia, student debt, education and social policy, health in all policies
Study of a series of problems and the development of quantitative techniques to describe or evaluate the problem. The organization and interpretation of complex data and its use for prediction and inference about casual effects. The definition of objectives, trade-offs among objectives, and allocation of resources to meet objectives. Sensitivity of outcomes to changing conditions
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