Dr. Kara Rudolph

Biography

Kara Rudolph is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on the development and application of causal inference methods to understand the social and contextual influences on mental health, substance use, and violence. Her current work emphasizes developing and applying methods for transportability and mediation to understand mechanisms that are relevant to drug use disorder prevention and treatment in targeted populations. Rudolph's research actively contributes to efforts aimed at optimally targeting available policy and program resources by generalizing and transporting findings from study samples to target populations and identifying subpopulations that are likely to benefit from interventions. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and a Master of Health Science in Biostatistics, both from Johns Hopkins University, and is a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar.

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