Kathryn
Rhine,
PhD
Associate Professor, Geography & Atmospheric Science/African & African-American Studies
The University of Kansas
Dr. Katie Rhine is Associate Professor, Geography & Atmospheric Science and African & African-American Studies; Faculty Fellow, University Honors Program; co-director of the first humanities-based lab, CoILAB-oratives: Bridging Digital Health Divides in East Africa; Integrated Arts Research Initiative faculty fellow with the Spencer Museum of Art; and co-founder/Co-Facilitator of HHARC. She studies the relationship between culture and health in Nigeria and her research is centered on topics including women and the HIV epidemic in northern Nigeria, and trauma systems and bloodless medicine in southern Nigeria. Additionally, she teaches and mentors students thought an undergraduate global medicine seminar.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Advancing the care of people, families, and communities and achieving health equity is fostered through interprofessional academic-community partnerships, including community-engaged collaborations focused upon clinical and translational research. Frontiers, the University of Kansas’ Clinical and Translational Science Institute, believes that conducting clinical and translational research requires collaboration with patients, stakeholders, and community partners. Frontiers’ Community Engagement Core has adopted an innovative approach to community-engaged research through the collective…