Kari North
Professor, Director, Border Health Research Center, and Vice President of Border Health
956/755-0600
780 Ringgold Road, Brownsville, TX 78520-4979
About
I am a talented and creative interdisciplinary leader of collaborative research, with an international reputation as an innovator and consortium builder. I have developed new initiatives and built partnerships across diverse constituents to advance science, drive innovation, and improve public health in the United States and globally, particularly in historically marginalized populations. My work as a senior scholar has been transformational in public health genomics. I have over 21 years’ experience directing a continuously funded research program (30M in NIH research funding as principal investigator) of productive and collaborative research in molecular epidemiology, global public health, and cardiometabolic disease (CMD) science (591 peer-reviewed papers, 49,380 total citations, h-index of 100). • Strong commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice • Extramural research program management and leadership • Devoted to mentoring and career development • Advocate for research ethics and data sharing • Dedicated to innovation and consortium building • Passionate for public health scholarship
Center Affiliation
- Border Health Research Center
Research Interests
- Aging / Gerontology
- Biostatistics and Data Science
- Border Health
- Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
- Epidemiology
- Genetics and Multi-omics
- Global Health
- Population Health
- Public Health Leadership