Kathryn Fingar oversees original research and surveillance of firearm violence. As an epidemiologist, she has nearly 20 years of experience conducting public health research for local, state, and federal agencies. As an author of over 25 peer-reviewed publications and numerous statistical briefs and reports, her work has covered a wide array of topics using health services, econometric, and epidemiologic methods on administrative and real-world data. Her areas of expertise include maternal and child health, social disparities in health, and injury and violence prevention. She has an MPH and PhD in epidemiology from UCLA.
Kathryn Fingar is a 2024 grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth.