Kathryn Burnham

Evaluator

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Public Health

Department:

WV Prevention Research Center

Classification:

Staff

Dr. Kathryn (Katie) Burnham works as the Lead Evaluator for State Partnerships at the West Virginia Prevention Research Center. In this role, she conducts needs assessments and process, outcome, and impact evaluations for public health programming in West Virginia. She takes a community-based participatory approach to evaluation.

Education:

• BA in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2013)
• MA in Criminology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2016)
• PhD in Sociology from West Virginia University (2025)