Dr. Kathleen Sherrieb is the Associate Director of the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research. She is a social epidemiologist with a concentration in maternal-child health and received a DrPH degree from Harvard School of Public Health. She also received a MS in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is a clinical nurse specialist in community health.
She is a Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and is currently doing research on community resilience and disaster mental health outcomes funded by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (NC-START) at the University of Maryland.
Her interests include the epidemiology of health service utilization by youth, women and families, social determinants at the family and community levels that facilitate or deter health care use, and the design, implementation and evaluation of innovative service delivery models for children and families with special health care needs.
Past experiences include program development and evaluation for community-based intervention programs for youth with special health care needs, community-focused training for professionals working with women and children affected by HIV and substance abuse, and coordination of statistical and data management work for NIH- funded multi-site studies.