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 Recent 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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