Katherine (Kate) Ellingson, PhD

Dr. Ellingson joined the University of Arizona in 2017 following 10 years of public service as a health care epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Oregon State Health Department. While at CDC, she investigated the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms in health care settings, evaluated initiatives to prevent health care-associated infections, built capacity for infection prevention in resource-limited settings, and served as the agency’s subject matter expert for hand hygiene in healthcare. At the Oregon Health Department, she directed the state’s mandatory health care-associated infection reporting program, investigated infectious disease outbreaks and led injection safety promotion efforts.