Katherine R. Standish

Boston University School of Medicine

Katherine Standish is an academic fellow and assistant professor of family medicine at Boston University. Her research focuses on improving maternal child health, particularly clinical interventions to prevent early cessation of breastfeeding. Her research is with mother-baby pairs with barriers to breastfeeding in the US and Latin America, in particular low-income women, women with substance use disorder, and Black women. Dr. Standish studied medicine at Yale University and completed her residency training at Boston Medical Center. Prior to studying medicine, she worked in community-based participatory research and other studies addressing harm reduction for opioid use in New York City and Mexico, clinical studies of emerging infectious diseases in Nicaragua, and mixed methods studies of ethical issues in North-South research. She also works at Manet Community Health Center where she provides primary care, women’s healthcare, and integrated mother-baby prenatal, post-partum, and well-baby care.

Areas of Expertise

• Health and Medicine

Methodology

• Clinical
• Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Interviews
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative Methods
• Randomized Control Trials (RCTs)
• Survey Methods and Questionnaires