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Katherine Mason is a medical anthropologist who conducts ethnographic fieldwork in China and the United States, focusing on medical anthropology, population health, bioethics, China studies, reproductive health, mental health, and global health issues. Her book, 'Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health' (2016), traces the transformation of public health in China during the 2003 SARS epidemic and has received significant recognition, including the Foundation Sociology Health Illness Book Prize from the British Sociological Association in 2019. Mason has published her work in noted journals such as American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. She co-founded the Pandemic Journaling Project, a multidisciplinary initiative that gathered diverse narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, Mason is involved in several research projects examining the impact of the pandemic on first-generation college students and immigrant women in New York City. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and various academic foundations. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 2011 and has served in several academic roles at Brown University, including Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology.
Department: Department of Economics