Kate Vinita Fitch

Kate Vinita Fitch

Kate Vinita Fitch is a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology and a research assistant for the Innovations in Suicide Prevention Research (INSPIRE) project at IPRC. Prior to coming to UNC, she completed her BA in Public Health from the University of Colorado Denver while conducting research on disparities in how threatening individuals are when they are killed by police based on their race and mental health status. Kate’s primary research interests are self- and other-inflicted violence, including suicide, police brutality, and domestic abuse, especially against people with mental illness.