Education Committee

Education Committee Co-Chair

Katherine M. Keyes is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Katherine’s research focuses on life course epidemiology with particular attention to substance use disorders, including long-term outcomes of adverse childhood environments, and cross-generational cohort effects on alcohol outcomes, drug use, and related psychiatric and chronic health outcomes. Her work has centrally focused on adolescent mental health and substance use, including the epidemiology of adolescent opioid, marijuana, and alcohol use in adolescence across historical time. Katherine is an expert in methodological issues in age-period-cohort effect estimation. She is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, has authored two books on epidemiological methods, and her work is funded by the National Institute for Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Education Committee Chair

Catherine Lesko received her MPH from Emory University and her PhD from the University of North Carolina. She is currently a Research Associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work focuses on applying causal methods to cohort data and improving the HIV care continuum.