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. 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