Kathryn Falb

NextGen Scholar

Assistant Professor with the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Kathryn Falb, ScD, MHS, is an Assistant Professor with the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Leon Robertson Faculty Development Chair in Injury Prevention.  She brings over 15 years of practitioner and research experience in violence prevention and humanitarian research, including over a decade working as an embedded researcher within the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian aid organization, where she most recently served as its Research Director. 

Her body of work has focused on understanding what works to best prevent and respond to violence against women, children, and other marginalized populations in humanitarian settings.  Dr Falb holds a ScD from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, an MHS from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a BS from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  She also completed postdoctoral training at the Yale School of Public Health and has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and numerous practitioner and policy-focused research outputs to help shift humanitarian policy and practice.