
Katie Burford has joined the BEH team as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the T32 Program for Advanced Training in Environmental Health and Data Science at the Mailman School of Public Health. Katie is broadly interested in physical activity, pedestrian safety, and urban health inequities. Her research has focused on the measurement of the built and social environment and how it influences children’s physical activity. She wrote her dissertation on measuring traffic-related safety for active commuting to school and received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Austin, Texas.

