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Katrina M. Walsemann, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Roger C. Lipitz Distinguished Chair in Health Policy and Professor
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, Maryland, United States

Dr. Walsemann is the Roger C. Lipitz Distinguished Chair in Health Policy and professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a faculty associate at the Maryland Population Research Center.

Dr. Walsemann is a population health scientist with a particular focus on how the U.S. education system shapes individuals’ physical, mental, and cognitive health, independent from and in relation to other structural factors such as race/ethnicity, gender, and social class. She has published extensively on how early school environments affect health and health behavior across the life course as well as how student debt influences the psychosocial health of young adults and their aging parents. Her current research explores how state and local educational contexts during childhood relate to cognitive impairment and dementia risk later in life. Fundamental to her research is an understanding of the historical and contemporary social policies that can create, reduce, or eliminate racial and social inequities in population health.

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