Chief, Policy, Planning and Analyses Section, OBSSR
Phone: 301-496-5594
Brief Biography:
Katie Morris, M.P.H., began supervising the Policy, Planning, and Analyses Section of OBSSR in 2023. Previously, she served as a health science policy analyst and as executive secretary of the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee. She also facilitated co-funding opportunities and provided research and analyses for OBSSR.
Prior to joining OBSSR, Katie was a public health analyst, managing data and report-writing on global health priorities for the U.S. Agency for International Development, particularly in undernutrition, maternal and child health, reproductive health and family planning, and harmonization of data and indicators commonly used in global health. She has experience with nutrition and agriculture issues while working for the United Nations’ World Food Programme. Additionally, she performed tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment research as a George Washington University Global Health Fellow, focusing on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and performed mixed-methods research on tobacco and drug use in peri-urban Bangladesh. She has led global health curricula for B.S.N. and M.S.N. programs at Southern New Hampshire University and lectured in The George Washington University online M.P.H. program on health system strengthening.
Katie holds an M.P.H. and a B.A. from The George Washington University.
