Kate Burrows

Kate Burrows is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Public Health Sciences. She is an environmental epidemiologist whose research focuses on the relationship between climate- and weather-related extremes and public health, with a particular focus on mental health outcomes. She is a mixed methods scientist and conducts quantitative research at the national level, as well as qualitative and community-based research in local settings. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University and received her PhD from Yale University’s School of the Environment.