Dr Katherine Keenan

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Katherine Keenan has a multidisciplinary background in anthropology, demography, and epidemiology. After a spell working in technology, she completed an MSc Demography and Health and PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She went on to work as a postdoc at both LSHTM and LSE before joining St Andrews as a Lecturer in July 2017. She is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Fertility and Health (Oslo), and a Faculty member of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (MPIDR-PHDS). Since 2023 she is a visiting researcher at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo (FGV), Brazil, and Associate Researcher at the Antimicrobial Resistance Institute of Sao Paulo. From April 2024 she is also serving as Deputy Director (Training) for the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science, seconded 50% of her time to the University of Edinburgh.