14 Facts About Joanne Katz

Joanne Katz is an epidemiologist, biostatistician, and Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Joanne Katz holds joint appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Ophthalmology within the School of Medicine.

Joanne Katz's expertise is in maternal, neonatal, and child health.

Joanne Katz has contributed to the design, conduct and analysis of data from large community-based intervention trials on nutritional and other interventions in Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal, and other countries.

Joanne Katz's father, Robert Katz, was a builder of large apartment buildings across Cape Town and a holder of several patents in Africa and Europe.

The family immigrated to the United States in 1978, just after Katz graduated with a Bachelor of Science in economics and statistics from the University of Cape Town.

Joanne Katz received a Master of Science in mathematical statistics from Princeton University in 1982 and immediately joined the faculty of the newly established Dana Center in the Johns Hopkins Department of Ophthalmology as a research associate.

Joanne Katz's dissertation was titled Village and household clustering of morbidity and mortality in developing countries.

From 1982 to 1994, Joanne Katz served on the faculty of the Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology in the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins.

Joanne Katz has contributed to the research and the diagnosis of eye disease, specifically to underserved children and elderly in Baltimore.

Joanne Katz's research has sought to find low cost interventions to reduce micronutrient deficiencies, infectious diseases, and poor reproductive outcomes among pregnant women, adolescents, and young children in Africa and Asia.

From 1983 to 1992, Joanne Katz worked with Keith West and James Tielsch to run a number of large scale, community-based, randomized trials to identify a link between VAD and child mortality.

Joanne Katz has been working in Nepal since 1988, with the Nepal Nutrition Intervention Project Sarlahi.

Joanne Katz's research includes analyses of data sets from multiple low- and middle-income countries to estimate the burden of different small vulnerable newborn types.