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Kate LeMasters

SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST

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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. 

Public health must address the 
harms of the carceral system

Select Recent Publications

LeMasters, K. Ross, R., Edwards, J., Lee, H., Robinson, W., Brinkley-Rubinstein, L., Delamater, P., Pence, B. Mass Probation: Effects of sentencing severity on mental health for Black and White individuals. Epidemiology. 2024 Jan 1;35(1):74-83. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001678.

 

LeMasters K., Behne M.F., Lao J., Peterson M., Brinkley-Rubinstein L. (2023) Suicides in state prisons in the United States: Highlighting gaps in data. PLOS ONE 18(5): e0285729. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285729

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

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