Staff & Leadership

M. Kate Grabowski, PhD

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Biography

Assistant Scientist
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

Research interests

Mary Kate Grabowski is an Assistant Scientist in the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University. She also works as an epidemiologist with the Rakai Health Sciences Program (RHSP) in southern Uganda. Her primary research interests include the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. She has expertise in the conduct and analysis of large population-based cohort studies, impact evaluation, mixed-methods research, and phylogenetics. She has spent 15 years working on HIV research in African settings where she has been involved in various epidemiological and laboratory-based studies, including the Rakai Community Cohort Study, one of the largest. Kate also serves on the executive committee of the Bill and Melinda Gates funded PANGEA-HIV consortium, a large pan-African HIV sequencing initiative that aims to improve delivery of HIV prevention and treatment services through a better understanding of transmission dynamics using viral genomes.

Methods of Expertise

Large, population-based cohort studies, impact evaluation, mixed-methods research, and phylogenetics

Services available to CFAR investigators

Epidemiological study design, longitudinal data analysis, viral phylogenetics, analyses of HIV transmission dynamics

Sample Papers

  1. Chang L, Grabowski MK*, Ssekubugu R, Nalugoda F, Kigozi G, Nantume B, Lessler J, Moore SM, Quinn TC, Reynolds SJ, Gray RH, Serwadda D, Wawer MJ. Small-scale heterogeneity of the HIV epidemic: an epidemiologic study of agrarian, trading, and fishing communities in Rakai Uganda. Lancet HIV 2020 [in press] *co-first author
  2. Grabowski MK, Lessler J, Redd AD, Kagaayi J, Laeyendecker O, Ndyanabo A, Nelson M, Cummings DAT, Bwanika JB, Mueller AM, Reynolds, SJ, Munshaw S, Ray SC, Lutalo T, Manucci J, Tobian AR, Beyrer C, Jennings JM, Nalugoda F, Serwadda D, Wawer MJ, Quinn TC, Gray RH, and the Rakai Health Science Program. The role of viral introductions in sustaining community-based HIV epidemics in rural Uganda: evidence from spatial clustering, phylogenetics, and egocentric transmission models. PLoS Med 2014;11(3):e1001610. PMC3942316
  3. Grabowski MK, Gray RH, Makumbi F, Kagaayi J, Redd AD, Reynolds SJ, Nalugoda F, Lutalo T, Wawer MJ, Serwadda D, Quinn TC, Tobian AA. Use of injectable hormonal contraception and women’s risk of herpes simplex virus type 2 acquisition: a prospective study of couples in Rakai, Uganda. Lancet Glob Health 2015;3(8):e478-86. PMC5537725
  4. Tobian AA, Kigozi G, Manucci J, Grabowski MK, Serwadda D, Musoke R, Redd AD, Nalugoda F, Reynolds SJ, Kighoma N, Laeyendecker O, Lessler J, Gray RH, Quinn TC, Wawer MJ. HIV shedding from male circumcision wounds in HIV-infected men: a prospective cohort study. PLoS Med 2015;12(4):e1001820. PMC4412625 
  5. Grabowski MK and Redd AD. Molecular tools for HIV transmission in sexual networks. Curr Opin HIV AIDS 2014;9(2):125-133. PMC4109889
     

Links

http://www.iddynamics.jhsph.edu/