Kate LeMasters
SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST
Welcome.
I am an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine. I am a social epidemiologist and a community engaged researcher, focusing on how the system of mass incarceration creates and exacerbates health inequities.
In 2023, I graduated with my PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was affiliated with the Carolina Population Center and the Bellwether Collaborative for Health Justice. I am also a scholar at The Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Training Program. My doctorate was funded by an F31 grant I was awarded from the National Institutes of Minority Health and Health Disparities.
Select Recent Publications
LeMasters K., Behne M.F., Lao J., Peterson M., Brinkley-Rubinstein L. (2023) Suicides in state prisons in the United States: Highlighting gaps in data. PLOS ONE 18(5): e0285729. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285729
LeMasters K., Renson A., Edwards J.K., Robinson W.R., Brinkley-Rubinstein L., Delamater P., Pence, B. Inequities in Life Course Criminal Legal System Sanctions: Measuring Cumulative Involvement. Annals of Epidemiology Dec 2022; 76:83–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2022.10.007
LeMasters, K., Brinkley-Rubinstein, L., Maner, M., Peterson, M., Nowotny, K., Bailey, Z. Carceral Epidemiology: COVID-19 Highlights Mass Incarceration as a Key Mechanism of Structural Racism. The Lancet Public Health. March 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00005-6