Katherine (Katie) J. Harmon, PhD, MPH
Research Associate, UNC Highway Safety Research Center
Katherine (Katie) Harmon, PhD, MPH, is a research associate at the UNC Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC). As an epidemiologist, Harmon specializes in integrating healthcare data with other data sources to better describe health outcomes following injuries, with a focus on traffic injuries. Within the field of traffic injury epidemiology, Harmon specializes in research involving vulnerable road users, such as children, older adults, and pedestrians, among other special populations.
In addition to traffic safety, Harmon is interested in violence prevention and improving injury surveillance data quality and capacity at the state and federal level. Harmon holds a PhD in Epidemiology from UNC Chapel Hill, an MPH with a joint concentration in Epidemiology and Environmental and Occupational Health from Saint Louis University, and a BS in Environmental Health Science from the University of Georgia. Harmon is a former CDC/Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Applied Epidemiology Fellow at the North Carolina Division of Public Health.