Kate Ksobiech, Ph.D.
Associate Professor-In-Residence
Biography
Dr. Kate Ksobiech has taught communication-related courses throughout her academic career. She specializes in the design, implementation and evaluation of health messages/campaigns, including health risk reduction interventions. Dr. Ksobiech’s Ph.D. is in Urban Studies, which is an interdisciplinary doctoral program which focused on the intersection of race/ethnicity, geography, and health. Her dissertation was a meta-analysis of the societal impact of needle exchange programs. After receiving her Ph.D., she completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Center for AIDS Intervention Research. This NIMH-funded fellowship allowed her to develop an original funded study with injection drug users to develop behavioral health risk reduction interventions. Research Interests: Facilitators and barriers to healthcare and healthy behaviors, health disparities and implementation science with a special focus on HIV risk, barriers to prevention, and effective interventions for prevention, food insecurity among rural communities, and adolescent substance use risk behaviors. Courses Taught: Introduction to Public Health, Health Across the Lifespan, Cross-Cultural Communication, Research Methods, Health Communication, Health Campaigns, Health Advocacy.