Kathryn P. Derose is an adjunct senior policy researcher at RAND and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing health disparities. She has particular expertise regarding faith-based organizations, community-based participatory research, immigrants' health care access, Latino populations, and Latin America. Derose has served as principal investigator of several NIH-funded studies that developed multi-component interventions to address health disparities, such as faith-based efforts to reduce HIV-related stigma, promote HIV testing, and address obesity, and a church- and park-based intervention to increase physical activity. Currently, Derose is leading a large-scale trial of an integrated urban gardens and peer nutritional counseling intervention to improve food security and adherence to antiretroviral therapy among people with HIV in the Dominican Republic. She is also co-leading work at RAND to understand faith-based approaches to moral injury among veterans. Derose has also researched immigrants' health care access and quality in the United States and park-based interventions to increase physical activity.
Derose is bilingual (English-Spanish), having lived and worked in Latin America for six years before seeking graduate education in public health. She is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent career, and is a former Fulbright Scholar to Ecuador. Derose received her Ph.D. in health services research and M.P.H. in population and family health from UCLA, and her B.A. in comparative area studies, Latin America from Duke University.
Ph.D. in health services, University of California, Los Angeles; M.P.H. in population and family health, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. in comparative area studies-latin america, Duke University
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Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Community Health Equity Research and Policy
