Kate LeMasters
SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST
Welcome.
I am an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine. My primary appointment is in General Internal Medicine and I have a secondary appointment in Epidemiology. I am a social epidemiologist and a community engaged researcher, focusing on how the system of mass incarceration creates and exacerbates health inequities.
In 2023, I graduated with my PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was affiliated with the Carolina Population Center and the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice. I am also a scholar at The Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Training Program. My doctorate was funded by an F31 grant I was awarded from the National Institutes of Minority Health and Health Disparities.
Select Publications
LeMasters, K., Haber, L.A. The hidden crisis of incarcerated individuals during wildfires. The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. Volume 43, 2025, 101032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2025.101032.
​​LeMasters, K., D’Alessio, A., Touma, F., Andrabi, N., Mitchell, D., Brinkley-Rubinstein, L., Gutierrez, C. The Physiological Toll of Arrests: An Examination of Arrest History on Midlife Allostatic Load. Annals of Epidemiology. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2024.05.007
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LeMasters, K., Brinkley-Rubinstein, L., Maner, M., Peterson, M., Nowotny, K., Bailey, Z. Carceral Epidemiology: COVID-19 Highlights Mass Incarceration as a Key Mechanism of Structural Racism. The Lancet Public Health. March 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00005-6
Unbound Authors provides writing labs to incarcerated writers in Colorado state prisons.
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