Katrine L Wallace, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Epidemiologist
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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About
Dr. Wallace holds a PhD in Epidemiology (UIC SPH '13) and also has professional experience in science communication, infectious disease and cancer epidemiology, epidemiological research methods, and biostatistics.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Wallace served as a member of several international science communication initiatives, such as "Team Halo" (United Nations), and Project FIDES (World Health Organization). She was also recognized by the UK government as a "Vaccine Luminary" science communicator at the 2021 G7 Vaccine Confidence Summit.
Due to her advocacy work combatting health misinformation on social media, she has been featured as an opinion contributor and has been interviewed or profiled in several mainstream media outlets such as: BBC, MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and NPR.
Selected Publications
Dasari A, Wallace KL, Halperin DM, et al. Epidemiology of Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in the US JAMA Network Open 8 (6), June 2, 2025, e2515798-e2515798
Wallace KL. The Dose Makes the Poison: Clarifying the Record on Fluoride MedPage Today. December 5,2024
Malaty-Rivera J, Wallace KL, Communication Breakdown: Dissemination of Public Health Information, MJH Life Sciences, Published 10/30/2023
Wallace KL. Malaty-Rivera J. Why are we not protecting our youngest children against infections? Contagion Live. Dec 26, 2022.
Wallace KL, Landsteiner A, Bunner SH, et al. Increasing prevalence of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in a managed care population in the United States. Cancer Causes Control. 2021; 32, 1365–1374.
Wallace KL. COVID-19 vaccines work – misreading the data can make you think otherwise. The Hill. August 27, 2021.
Wallace KL, Adanski K, Ashwini P, et al. The budget impact of including Rucaparib on a US payer formulary for treatment of patients with metatastic ovarian cancer. PharmacoEconomics. 2021;39,231-24
Wallace KL, Riedel AA, Joseph-Ridge N, Wortmann R, Increasing prevalence of gout and hyperuricemia over 10 years among older adults in a managed care population. The Journal of rheumatology 31 (8), 1582-1587
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Education
Ph.D. Epidemiology, 2013, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Licensures and Certifications
Certified in Public Health (CPH, 2022) by the National Board of Public Health Examiners
Professional Memberships
American Public Health Association (APHA)
Society for Epidemiological Research (SER)
American College of Epidemiology (ACE)
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
Selected Presentations
- Invited Panel Member: Toxicology in the Age of Mistrust, NAACT 2025, Chicago IL
- Invited Speaker: Real World Treatment Patterns of Advanced Melanoma in the United States, ISPOR 2025, Montreal CAN, May 15, 2025
- Invited Panel Member: Detecting and correcting misinformation online - What's next? Disease Prevention & Control Summit 2024, September 5, 2024
- Invited Panel Member: Vaccine Misinformation Panel, World Vaccine Congress, April 4-6, 2024
- Invited Speaker: Elevating Credible Medical Voices on Social Media, Duke University National Forum on Misinformation, November 16, 2023.
- Invited Speaker: Pandemics, Infodemics and Information Overload: How consistent, clear communication can help in future outbreaks. University of Alabama at Birmingham, November 7, 2023
- Invited Panel Member: From Inspiration to Impact: Can Social Media Creators Change the World? VIDCON, September 29, 2023, Baltimore, MD
- Invited Panel Member: From Hashtags to Solutions: Leveraging Social Media for Effective Pandemic Preparedness, Disease Prevention & Control Summit 2023, September 7, 2023
- Invited Expert: Nobel Prize Summit on Misinformation "Truth, Trust & Hope", National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, May 25, 2023
- Invited Panel Member: Epidemiology & Science Communication During a Pandemic, Science Talk 2023 Science Communicators Conference, Portland, OR, April 6, 2022
- Invited Speaker: Strategies for Combatting Health Misinformation, National Library of Medicine 2023 Virtual Symposium on Health Misinformation, April 5, 2023
- Invited Panel Member: Building and Sustaining Public Trust in Science, Washington Post Live, Washington DC, December 6, 2022
- Invited Speaker: Talking over the Fence, Going Public with your Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 27, 2022
- Invited Speaker: Strategies for Combatting Health Misinformation, Hines College, Oct 19, 2022.
- Invited Speaker: Strategies for Combatting Health Misinformation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, October 13, 2022.
- Invited Panel Member: Best Practices for Establishing an Effective Online Presence: a Panel Discussion for Academics, SoCal Clinical and Translational Science Institute, June 1, 2022
- Invited Speaker: The Health Risks of Misinformation, University of Illinois at Chicago Alumni Exchange, May 19, 2022.
- Invited Speaker: Misinformation as a Risk Factor Exacerbating the COVID-19 Pandemic, University of Alabama at Birmingham, April 26, 2022.
- Invited Panel Member: Combatting Mis/Dis-information with Science Communication, NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, McCormick Place, Chicago, April 23, 2022
- Invited Panel Member: The co-epidemic of COVID-19 and misinformation, University of Illinois Springfield, November 19, 2021
- Invited Spotlight Session Panel Member: Social Media for Advocacy, Meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) October 2021
- Invited Panel Member: When Misinformation Goes Viral: Using TikTok to Fight Disinformation – October 20, 2021 Panel Discussion with New York University GPH and NYU Steinhart