Katrin Kuhn has more than 20 years’ experience in infectious disease epidemiology
Dr. Kuhn was one of the original founders of the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where she completed her postgraduate degrees and worked for several years.
Following this, she acted as a senior epidemiologist at the national Danish institute of infectious diseases in charge of One Health collaborations, national surveillance of Campylobacter and Shigella and as principal investigator on numerous outbreak investigations. Since transitioning to Oklahoma in 2020, she has become one of the founders of the University of Oklahoma Wastewater Surveillance Team which monitors for infectious pathogens in wastewater throughout the State of Oklahoma.
In addition to her work in the US, Katrin is also an external professor in Clinical Trials education at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Katrin has served as an expert consultant on infectious diseases and climate change for the World Health Organization and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as a nominated expert on food-and waterborne diseases and antimicrobial resistance for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
