Dr. Kate Adams is an epidemiologist and Staff Scientist at the Health Effects Institute (HEI). After graduating with an S.B. from MIT in 1989, she spent three years as a materials scientist at Arthur D. Little, Inc., working with materials for wear resistance and extreme environments. Prior to joining HEI, she worked for four years at the Harvard School of Public Health as a field manager and data manager on asthma and indoor air quality studies while attending UMass Lowell, where she received her ScD in Environmental Epidemiology in 2006.
Since joining HEI in 2006, Kate has supervised a number of studies, including a follow-up study of mortality before and after a ban on the sale of coal in several Irish cities, and three key studies aimed at developing fully multipollutant methods for the study of public health. She has also directed the review of several reports from several large epidemiology studies of regulatory importance, including the update study for the American Cancer Society cohort, and co-directed the review of the National Particle Component Toxicity Initiative (NPACT) studies of health effects associated with particulate. Outside of HEI, she participated in the early phases of the International Collaboration on Air Pollution and Pregnancy Outcomes (ICAPPO) project, a global consortium of scientists studying the relationships between air pollution and adverse birth outcomes, and has served as a scientific reviewer for the California Air Resources Board and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
- 2015 Symposia – Multiple Pollutant Methods for Air Pollution and Health Research