Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH

Rebecca Katz is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Health Policy.

Contact Professor Katz at:
• Phone: (202) 530-2355
• Fax: (202) 296-0025
• Email: rlkatz@gwu.edu

Rebecca Katz is an Assistant Research Professor at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in the Department of Health Policy. Her research is focused on public health preparedness, biological warfare, and the intersection of infectious diseases and national security. Current research projects are focused on evaluating bioterrorism training for clinicians and the implementation of the International Health Regulations.

She previously worked on Biological Warfare (BW) counterproliferation at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and was an Intelligence Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Intelligence Research in the Joint Military Intelligence College. She also spent several years as a public health consultant for The Lewin Group working with foundations on community based public health projects, with the federal government on the infectious disease surveillance system, and with local and state health departments on maternal and child health policy. Since September 2004, Dr. Katz has been a consultant to the Department of State, working on issues related to Biological Weapons, attribution and the Biological Weapons Convention for the Bureau of Verification, Compliance and Implementation.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Political Science, Swarthmore College, 1995
Master of Public Health (International Health), Yale University, 1998
Master of Arts (Public Affairs), Princeton University, 2002
Doctor of Philosophy (Public Affairs), Princeton University, 2005

Teaching

Homeland Security and Public Health Policy, Department of Health Policy
Demography and Public Health Policy, Department of Health Policy
Biodefense and Biosecurity, Department of Health Policy
Case Studies in Public Health (Undergraduate)

Departments

• Health Policy

Publications

• Suspected BW Agent Use: Yellow Rain
  Katz, Rebecca. Suspected BW Agent Use: Yellow Rain. In . Terrorism, War or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons, Eds. Clunan AL, Lavoy PR, Martin SB. Stanford University Press, 2008
• Ensuring the Use of Federal Assets in Public Health Emergencies; The Role of the Federal Tort Claims Act in Enabling the Responsiveness of Federally Funded Community Health Centers.
  Katz, Rebecca; Goldstein, Melissa; Hayashi, A Seiji. Ensuring the Use of Federal Assets in Public Health Emergencies; The Role of the Federal Tort Claims Act in Enabling the Responsiveness of Federally Funded Community Health Centers. Public Health Reports. January/February 2008, 123:89-92
• Can an attribution assessment be made for Yellow Rain? Systematic reanalysis in a chemical and biological weapons use investigation.
  Katz, Rebecca and Singer, Burton. Can an attribution assessment be made for Yellow Rain? Systematic reanalysis in a chemical and biological weapons use investigation. Politics and the Life Sciences. 24 August 2007, 26(1): 24-42
• Health and Security in Foreign Policy
  Katz, Rebecca and Singer, Daniel. Health and Security in Foreign Policy. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, March 2007, 85(3): 233-234
• Public Health Preparedness: The Best Defense Against Biological Weapons.
  Katz, Rebecca. Public Health Preparedness: The Best Defense Against Biological Weapons. The Washington Quarterly 2002; 25:3 pp 69-82