Village and household clustering of morbidity and mortality in developing countries (1992)
Joanne Katz is an
epidemiologist,
biostatistician, and Professor of International Health at the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Ophthalmology (School of Medicine). Her expertise is in maternal, neonatal, and child health. She has contributed to the design, conduct and analysis of data from large community based intervention trials on nutritional and other interventions in Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal and other countries.
Early life and education
Joanne Katz was born in
Cape Town,
South Africa.[1] Her father Robert Katz was a builder of large apartment buildings across Cape Town and holder of several patents in Africa and Europe on innovative designs and construction methods using poured concrete technologies. Her mother, Rachel (Ray) Katz, a lawyer, was one of the first women admitted to the South African bar. Katz was the second of four children. The family immigrated to the United States in 1978 just after Katz graduated with a
Bachelor of Science in economics and statistics from the
University of Cape Town.[1][2]
From 1982 to 1994, Katz served on the faculty of the Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology in the
Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins.[1] With an MS degree, she was promoted to assistant professor in 1986 and to associate professor in 1991. In 1994, she moved with several colleagues into the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health.[1] There, she was promoted to professor in 1997.
Research
Katz has contributed to the research and the diagnosis of
eye disease, specifically to underserved children and elderly in
Baltimore.[1]
Her research has also sought to find low cost interventions to reduce
micronutrient deficiencies, infectious diseases, and poor reproductive outcomes among pregnant women, adolescents, and young children in Africa and Asia.[1] Starting in 1982, as a statistician, she worked with
Alfred Sommer to analyze data to uncover a link between
vitamin A deficiency (VAD) and an increased risk for child mortality.[4]
Katz worked with Dr. Alfred Sommer, Center director to understand the causes of xerophthalmia, respiratory and diarrheal infections in several countries in South Asia.
Awards
1993 Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society
2011, 2005, 2002 Advising, Mentoring and Teaching Recognition Award, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2011 Johns Hopkins Alumni Knowledge for the World Award
2011 Global Health Excellence in Advising Award, Johns Hopkins University
2018 Ernest Lyman Stebbins Medal for extraordinary contributions to the educational programs of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2019, 2011 Golden Apple Teaching Award, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2023 Dean's Award for Distinction in Faculty Mentoring for sustained commitment to excellence in fostering the scientific, academic and/or career development of fellow faculty members, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Select publications
Black, Robert E; Victora, Cesar G; Walker, Susan P; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Christian, Parul; de Onis, Mercedes; Ezzati, Majid; Grantham-McGregor, Sally; Katz, Joanne; Martorell, Reynaldo; Uauy, Ricardo (August 3, 2013). "Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries". The Lancet. 382 (9890): 427–451.
doi:
10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60937-X.
PMID23746772.
S2CID12237910.
Perchetti, Garrett A; Wilcox, Naomi; Chu, Helen Y; Katz, Joanne; Khatry, Subarna K; LeClerq, Steven C; Tielsch, James M; Jerome, Keith R; Englund, Janet A; Kuypers, Jane (April 30, 2021). "Human Metapneumovirus Infection and Genotyping of Infants in Rural Nepal". Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 10 (4): 408–416.
doi:
10.1093/jpids/piaa118.
PMID33137178.