Dr. Katelyn Holliday

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Katelyn Marie Holliday is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University. Her research interests focus on understanding how natural and built environments, as well as social factors, interact to influence health and health behaviors. She is particularly concerned with primordial prevention and the ways these environments can be shaped to positively influence health outcomes and behaviors. Her applied research includes studying a variety of health outcomes, including physical activity and cardiovascular disease, as well as addressing the issues of deaths of despair. Dr. Holliday holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also obtained her Master of Science in Public Health and Bachelor's degree. She has been awarded grants for her research, including a feasibility project for a treatment intervention to promote smoking cessation among light smokers from the National Institutes of Health, and various projects aimed at understanding suicide and overdose deaths.

Research Interests

Experience

Medical Instructor

— Present

Department of Community and Family Medicine • Duke University

Requirements for Duke University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.2
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Multivariable Calculus Introduction to Physics (mechanics) Introduction to Chemistry
Application Checklist
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  • Application Fee ($95)
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Specialization Notes

Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)