Ingrid T. Katz has been appointed director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. She will assume her new role on January 1.
The Yale Institute for Global Health is a collaboration between the Yale School of Medicine, the Yale School of Public Health, and the Yale School of Nursing. As the institute’s director, Dr. Katz will work with leaders across these three schools to expand global health activities throughout the Yale community and beyond. She will focus on developing innovative research, clinical, and educational programs that translate scientific discoveries into improved health for all and prepare the next generation of global health leaders.
For the past 16 years, Dr. Katz has been a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. During her tenure, she spent five years as associate faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Initiative, leading programs to address global health threats, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the systemic effects of climate change on human health. She also raised over $1 million for Harvard’s LEAD fellowship, which supports women global health leaders from low- and middle-income nations.
Dr. Katz focuses her own research on developing sustainable interventions to improve engagement in care for vulnerable populations in southern Africa. She has been consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health for nearly 15 years and has created long-term partnerships with the University of Cape Town and the University of Witwatersrand.
A graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts, Dr. Katz holds a master’s degree in health science from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco.