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Catherine Oldenburg

Associate Dean for Research, Professor

MPH, ScD

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Catie Oldenburg, MPH, ScD, is a professor and the associate dean for research at Bursky School of Public Health. An infectious disease epidemiologist, she focuses on design, implementation, and analysis of large-scale randomized controlled trials for infectious diseases. As the associate dean for research, she directs the Bursky School’s Office of Research Affairs and works to strengthen the school’s research enterprise in collaboration with the associate dean for faculty affairs. 

Before joining the Bursky School, Oldenburg was an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and an infectious disease epidemiologist with UCSF’s Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology. Her research includes strategies for trachoma elimination (Ethiopia, Niger) and infectious causes of mortality and the interaction between infectious disease and malnutrition (Burkina Faso). She has previously worked on studies of corneal ulcers in India, and HIV testing and prevention studies in Zambia, Uganda, South Africa, and the United States.

Oldenburg earned her master’s in public health at Boston University School of Public Health in international health and epidemiology, and her doctorate in science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in epidemiology. 

Areas of focus:

  • Infectious diseases
  • Child and adolescent health
  • Global health
  • Nutrition

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