Keshia Pollack Porter
Keshia Pollack Porter | |
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| Born | Keshia M. Pollack |
| Alma mater | Tufts University Yale University Johns Hopkins University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Injury epidemiology, health equity |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Doctoral advisor | Gary S. Sorock |
| Other academic advisors | Susan Pardee Baker Mark Cullen Linda Degutis |
Keshia M. Pollack Porter is an American injury epidemiologist and policy researcher who specializes in health equity and promoting safe environments. She is a Bloomberg Centennial Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Life
[edit]Pollack was born in Rockville Centre, New York to Yvonne Pollack.[1] She earned a B.A. in sociology with a certificate in community health from Tufts University in 2000.[2][3] She completed a M.P.H. in chronic disease epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health in 2002.[2] Her master's thesis was titled, Quantifying the Extent and Direction of the Occupational Injury Sex Disparity.[3] Mark Cullen and Linda Degutis were her co-advisors.[3] From 2004 to 2005, she was an intern to the health and government operations committee of the Maryland House of Delegates.[3]
Pollack earned a Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2005.[2] Her dissertation was titled, The Impact of Body Mass Index on Nonfatal Traumatic Occupational Injury in Hourly Manufacturing Employees.[3] Gary S. Sorock was her advisor.[3] Susan P. Baker and Cullen served as co-advisors.[3] She was a postdoctoral fellow in the research and evaluation unit at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.[3]
Pollack Porter is a faculty member in the department of health policy and management.[2] In 2021, she was made a Bloomberg Centennial Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[2] She is an injury epidemiologist and policy researcher who serves as the director of the institute for health and social policy.[2] Her research focuses on health equity and promoting safe environments.[4] In 2023, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine.[4]
Personal life
[edit]Pollack met Edward Porter, an IT supervisor from Alliance, Ohio in April 2015.[1] They married on September 2, 2017 at the Kimpton Hotel Monaco Washington DC.[1] They reside in Middle River, Maryland.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Williams IV, John-John (2017-10-06). "Wedded: Keshia Pollack and Edward Porter believe 'God brought us together'". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ a b c d e f "Keshia Pollack Porter | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health". publichealth.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Pollack, Keshia M. (2006). The Impact of Body Mass Index on Nonfatal Traumatic Occupational Injury in Hourly Manufacturing Employees (Ph.D. thesis). Johns Hopkins University. OCLC 70806846.
- ^ a b "Seven Johns Hopkins faculty members elected to National Academy of Medicine". The Hub. 2023-10-11. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
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- Living people
- People from Rockville Centre, New York
- Biologists from New York (state)
- 21st-century African-American scientists
- 21st-century American women scientists
- 21st-century African-American women
- 21st-century American biologists
- American women epidemiologists
- Tufts University alumni
- Yale School of Public Health alumni
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty
- People from Baltimore County, Maryland
- Members of the National Academy of Medicine
- African-American women scientists