Karin Han, M.P.H.
Management Analyst
Email: [email protected]

Brief Biography

Karin Han, M.P.H., joined OBSSR as a management analyst in January 2025. She supports the development, design, dissemination and evaluation of communication initiatives and projects to advance OBSSR's mission and amplify the impact of health-related behavioral and social sciences research.

Prior to joining OBSSR, Karin served as a program analyst at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. There, she supported the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Branch's grants and program activities. Before joining the National Institutes of Health, she earned a Master of Public Health degree, with concentrations in health policy and epidemiology and biostatistics, at the Brown School of Social Work and Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis. At Washington University, she worked on public health studies researching breast cancer and social support for Black women and their caregivers, as well as program sustainability and capacity within state tobacco control programs for the Prevention Research Center. Additionally, she served on the university's board of trustees.

Prior to graduate school, Karin was a research analyst at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Center for Asthma Research, working on birth-cohort studies researching RSV and asthma. She earned a bachelor's degree in molecular and cellular biology from Vanderbilt University.