Joanne Katz is an epidemiologist, biostatistician, and Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Ophthalmology (School of Medicine). Her expertise is in maternal, neonatal, and child health. She has contributed to the design, conduct and analysis of data from large community based intervention trials on nutritional and other interventions in Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal and other countries.
Village and household clustering of morbidity and mortality in developing countries (1992)
Early life and educationedit
Joanne Katz was born in Cape Town, South Africa.[1] Her father Robert Katz was a builder of large apartment buildings across Cape Town and holder of several patents in Africa and Europe on innovative designs and construction methods using poured concrete technologies. Her mother, Rachel (Ray) Katz, a lawyer, was one of the first women admitted to the South African bar. Katz was the second of four children. The family immigrated to the United States in 1978 just after Katz graduated with a Bachelor of Science in economics and statistics from the University of Cape Town.[1][2]
From 1982 to 1994, Katz served on the faculty of the Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology in the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins.[1] With an MS degree, she was promoted to assistant professor in 1986 and to associate professor in 1991. In 1994, she moved with several colleagues into the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health.[1] There, she was promoted to professor in 1997.
Researchedit
Katz has contributed to the research and the diagnosis of eye disease, specifically to underserved children and elderly in Baltimore.[1]
Her research has also sought to find low cost interventions to reduce micronutrient deficiencies, infectious diseases, and poor reproductive outcomes among pregnant women, adolescents, and young children in Africa and Asia.[1] Starting in 1982, as a statistician, she worked with Alfred Sommer to analyze data to uncover a link between vitamin A deficiency (VAD) and an increased risk for child mortality.[4]
Katz worked with Dr. Alfred Sommer, Center director to understand the causes of xerophthalmia, respiratory and diarrheal infections in several countries in South Asia.
Awardsedit
1993 Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society
2011, 2005, 2002 Advising, Mentoring and Teaching Recognition Award, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2011 Johns Hopkins Alumni Knowledge for the World Award
2011 Global Health Excellence in Advising Award, Johns Hopkins University
2018 Ernest Lyman Stebbins Medal for extraordinary contributions to the educational programs of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2019, 2011 Golden Apple Teaching Award, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2023 Dean's Award for Distinction in Faculty Mentoring for sustained commitment to excellence in fostering the scientific, academic and/or career development of fellow faculty members, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Select publicationsedit
Black, Robert E; Victora, Cesar G; Walker, Susan P; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Christian, Parul; de Onis, Mercedes; Ezzati, Majid; Grantham-McGregor, Sally; Katz, Joanne; Martorell, Reynaldo; Uauy, Ricardo (August 3, 2013). "Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries". The Lancet. 382 (9890): 427–451. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60937-X. PMID 23746772. S2CID 12237910.
Abarca-Gómez, Leandra; Abdeen, Ziad A; Hamid, Zargar Abdul; et al. (December 16, 2017). "Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults". The Lancet. 390 (10113): 2627–2642. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3. PMC5735219. PMID 29029897.
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (April 2016). "Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants". The Lancet. 387 (10026): 1377–1396. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30054-X. hdl:10230/28358. PMC7615134. PMID 27115820. S2CID 13764533.
Perchetti, Garrett A; Wilcox, Naomi; Chu, Helen Y; Katz, Joanne; Khatry, Subarna K; LeClerq, Steven C; Tielsch, James M; Jerome, Keith R; Englund, Janet A; Kuypers, Jane (April 30, 2021). "Human Metapneumovirus Infection and Genotyping of Infants in Rural Nepal". Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 10 (4): 408–416. doi:10.1093/jpids/piaa118. PMID 33137178.
Bryce, Emily; Katz, Joanne; Munos, Melinda K; Lama, Tsering; Khatry, Subarna; LeClerq, Steve (June 7, 2021). "Validation of Maternal Recall of Iron Folic Supplementation During Antenatal Care in Rural Southern Nepal". Current Developments in Nutrition. 5 (Supplement_2): 722. doi:10.1093/cdn/nzab046_019. PMC8181940.
Sommer, Alfred; Tielsch, James M.; Katz, Joanne; Quigley, Harry A.; Gottsch, John D.; Javitt, Jonathan C.; Martone, James F.; Royall, Richard M.; Witt, Kathe A.; Ezrine, Sandi (November 14, 1991). "Racial Differences in the Cause-Specific Prevalence of Blindness in East Baltimore". New England Journal of Medicine. 325 (20): 1412–1417. doi:10.1056/NEJM199111143252004. PMID 1922252.
Referencesedit
^ abcdefg"Joanne Katz, ScD". Maryland State Archives. 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
^ abc"Joanne Katz, ScD". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
^Sommer, Alfred; West, Keith P. (1996). Vitamin A Deficiency. Oxford University Press. p. 352.
^Prabhune, Meenakshi (April 6, 2020). "Alfred Sommer: Discovering a Two-Cent Remedy that Saves Children's Lives". Lasker Foundation. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
^ abc"The Story of Vitamin A". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 2003. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
^Howard, Brandon (May 2010). "Nepal and the Department of International Health A Model Relationship for Global Health Research". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
^"Joanne Katz, ScD". Maryland Women's Heritage Center. January 2, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
^"Joanne Katz receives NICHD funding to investigate risk factors for adverse birth outcomes in rural Nepal". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. September 17, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2021.