Katharine S. Walter
@katwalter.bsky.social
epidemiology | evolution | ecology of infectious diseases
Asst Prof of Epidemiology (she/her) U of Utah
views are mine alone
Asst Prof of Epidemiology (she/her) U of Utah
views are mine alone
Pinned
These Dis-United States
The country and the nation: Fifty writers and artists report on the states of our dis-union.
www.thenation.com
I’m honored to be part of @thenation.com's 160th anniversary issue, These Dis-United States! Writing in from Utah, this wondrous, wild, and complicated state.
Reposted by Katharine S. Walter
Together with @katwalter.bsky.social, we recently published in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social a piece highlighting the urgent need for coordinated genomic surveillance of tuberculosis as the situation worsens across the Americas. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Tuberculosis in the Americas: a worsening crisis amid genomic surveillance gaps
In 2023, tuberculosis (TB) returned as the leading infectious disease killer, after
falling behind COVID-19 during the pandemic. An estimated 1.25 million lives were
lost and 8.2 million new TB cases ...
www.thelancet.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Together with @katwalter.bsky.social, we recently published in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social a piece highlighting the urgent need for coordinated genomic surveillance of tuberculosis as the situation worsens across the Americas. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I’m honored to be part of @thenation.com's 160th anniversary issue, These Dis-United States! Writing in from Utah, this wondrous, wild, and complicated state.
These Dis-United States
The country and the nation: Fifty writers and artists report on the states of our dis-union.
www.thenation.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I’m honored to be part of @thenation.com's 160th anniversary issue, These Dis-United States! Writing in from Utah, this wondrous, wild, and complicated state.
I had a great time talking with @davidcondos.bsky.social about how the rapid development of St. George and encroachment into fragile desert habitats is creating intense dusk exposures, including exposures to the Valley fever fungus. www.kuer.org/health/2025-...
St. George’s growth is kicking up the fungus that causes valley fever
“This major excavation of soil that is happening right now to create luxury developments, to create golf courses — that is also creating tremendous dust exposures,” said University of Utah epidemiolog...
www.kuer.org
May 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I had a great time talking with @davidcondos.bsky.social about how the rapid development of St. George and encroachment into fragile desert habitats is creating intense dusk exposures, including exposures to the Valley fever fungus. www.kuer.org/health/2025-...
Reposted by Katharine S. Walter
Postdoc (Salt Lake City, USA)
Genomics and transmission of M. tuberculosis
with @katwalter.bsky.social
at @utah.edu
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2306
Genomics and transmission of M. tuberculosis
with @katwalter.bsky.social
at @utah.edu
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2306
April 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Postdoc (Salt Lake City, USA)
Genomics and transmission of M. tuberculosis
with @katwalter.bsky.social
at @utah.edu
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2306
Genomics and transmission of M. tuberculosis
with @katwalter.bsky.social
at @utah.edu
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2306
Are you interested in TB, genomics, and transmission? We're looking for a postdoc to join our lab, in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains. utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/181... @utah-idd.bsky.social @tbjournalclub.bsky.social @epijobs.bsky.social
Post Doc Res Assoc
The Evo-Epidemiology Laboratory at the University of Utah is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join our group to study the evolution and transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) ki...
utah.peopleadmin.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Are you interested in TB, genomics, and transmission? We're looking for a postdoc to join our lab, in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains. utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/181... @utah-idd.bsky.social @tbjournalclub.bsky.social @epijobs.bsky.social
Reposted by Katharine S. Walter
StopTB has a new report estimating the impact of the foreign aid freeze.
It's useful to understand the huge impact that global health efforts have everyday, and worrying. Some highlights... 🧵
It's useful to understand the huge impact that global health efforts have everyday, and worrying. Some highlights... 🧵
www.stoptb.org
February 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
StopTB has a new report estimating the impact of the foreign aid freeze.
It's useful to understand the huge impact that global health efforts have everyday, and worrying. Some highlights... 🧵
It's useful to understand the huge impact that global health efforts have everyday, and worrying. Some highlights... 🧵
Reposted by Katharine S. Walter
Vaccines and immunization fact sheets you can't find on CDC website anymore are archived at the link below. May be helpful to bookmark this for future reference.
www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...
www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...
Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) Overview | Immunize.org| Immunize.org
Find materials on legal requirements to give VISs to patients before vaccinating.
www.immunize.org
February 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Vaccines and immunization fact sheets you can't find on CDC website anymore are archived at the link below. May be helpful to bookmark this for future reference.
www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...
www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...
Reposted by Katharine S. Walter
The CDC is removing data sets that researchers widely rely upon because they include information on sexual orientation and gender identity. “It feels like they’re trying to will us out of existence,” one researcher tells @theresagaff.bsky.social:
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
CDC removes data on sexual orientation, gender identity from website
Data from an expansive federal survey on youth behavioral habits, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, have been removed from the website of the CDC.
www.statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The CDC is removing data sets that researchers widely rely upon because they include information on sexual orientation and gender identity. “It feels like they’re trying to will us out of existence,” one researcher tells @theresagaff.bsky.social:
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
I am with dozens of Utah scientists, healthcare providers, and educators who urge Senators Lee and Curtis to vote no on RFK’s dangerous nomination. The health of Utahns and Americans is at risk. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
@sltrib.com @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
@sltrib.com @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Voices: We’re infectious disease experts. RFK Jr. would put all our health at risk.
“A vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take America back to a troubling era when countless children suffered and died from horrific infections, leaving many with lifelong disabilities,” write Susana ...
www.sltrib.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I am with dozens of Utah scientists, healthcare providers, and educators who urge Senators Lee and Curtis to vote no on RFK’s dangerous nomination. The health of Utahns and Americans is at risk. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
@sltrib.com @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
@sltrib.com @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Reposted by Katharine S. Walter
Wow! Susana Keeshin and Katie Walter (my former classmate at @yalesph.bsky.social) call on Utah Senators Mike Lee and John Curtis to reject the nomination of #RFK Jr. for #HHS Secretary. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
Voices: We’re infectious disease experts. RFK Jr. would put all our health at risk.
“A vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take America back to a troubling era when countless children suffered and died from horrific infections, leaving many with lifelong disabilities,” write Susana ...
www.sltrib.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Wow! Susana Keeshin and Katie Walter (my former classmate at @yalesph.bsky.social) call on Utah Senators Mike Lee and John Curtis to reject the nomination of #RFK Jr. for #HHS Secretary. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
Reposted by Katharine S. Walter
Happy to see this work led by @katwalter.bsky.social out! In #TB outbreaks & high transmission settings, we often see many Mtb genomes that are identical or have 1-2 SNVs. Katharine asked whether we could leverage within host diversity & shared minority variants to better link transmission pairs.
New research article in The Lancet Microbe
Signatures of transmission in within-host #Mycobacterium #tuberculosis complex variation: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #MicroSky #TB #OpenAccess #OA
Signatures of transmission in within-host #Mycobacterium #tuberculosis complex variation: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #MicroSky #TB #OpenAccess #OA
November 29, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Happy to see this work led by @katwalter.bsky.social out! In #TB outbreaks & high transmission settings, we often see many Mtb genomes that are identical or have 1-2 SNVs. Katharine asked whether we could leverage within host diversity & shared minority variants to better link transmission pairs.
I wrote about the transformation of parched Mojave Desert landscapes into luxury golf courses and master-planned communities—and the rise of Valley fever www.noemamag.com/the-making-o...
The Making Of A New American Epidemic | NOEMA
Unchecked development is encroaching into parched desert landscapes and kicking up more than just a little dust — it’s raising the risk of a mysterious new infection.
www.noemamag.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:07 AM
I wrote about the transformation of parched Mojave Desert landscapes into luxury golf courses and master-planned communities—and the rise of Valley fever www.noemamag.com/the-making-o...