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Katrine L Wallace, PhD CPH

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Epidemiologist

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Contact

Building & Room:
SPHPI
Address:
1601-3 W Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60612

Email:

kwalla2@uic.edu

CV Download:

Katrine_Wallace_Academic_CV.pdf

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About

Dr. Wallace holds a PhD in Epidemiology (UIC SPH '13) and has professional experience in health economics and outcomes research, 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. In 2025, her research was recognized as an ISPOR Top 5% Finalist and an AMCP Nexus Silver Ribbon award recipient.

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, STAT News, and NPR.

Selected Publications

Block MS, Stenzel AE, Marcotte R, Wallace KL. Real-World Treatment Patterns in Advanced Cutaneous Melanoma in the USA. Targeted Oncology. 2026;21(4):569-580.

Dasari A, Wallace KL, Halperin DM, et al. Epidemiology of Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in the US. JAMA Network Open. 2025;8(6):e2515798.

Burstin H, Curry S, Ranney ML, et al., Wallace KL. Identifying Credible Sources of Health Information in Social Media: Phase 2—Considerations for Non-Accredited Nonprofit Organizations, For-Profit Entities, and Individual Sources. NAM Perspectives. National Academy of Medicine. 2023.

Peipert JD, Goble S, Isaacson J, Tang X, Wallace KL, et al. Patient-reported outcomes of maintenance rucaparib in patients with recurrent ovarian carcinoma in ARIEL3, a phase III, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Gynecologic Oncology. 2023;175:1-7.

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(12):1365-1374.

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. 2004;31(8):1582-1587.

Riedel AA, Nelson M, Joseph-Ridge N, Wallace KL, MacDonald P, Becker M. Compliance with allopurinol therapy among managed care enrollees with gout: a retrospective analysis of administrative claims. The Journal of Rheumatology. 2004;31(8):1575-1581.

Penson DF, Latini DM, Lubeck DP, Wallace KL, Henning JM, Lue TF. Do impotent men with diabetes have more severe erectile dysfunction and worse quality of life than the general population of impotent patients? Results from the ExCEED database. Diabetes Care. 2003;26(4):1093-1099.

Publication Aggregators

Service to Community

Dr. Wallace is committed to translating public health science for the communities most affected by it. She volunteers with the Chicago Volunteer Medical Corps, staffing mass vaccination events during disease outbreaks. She also provides free, evidence-based health education to a general public audience of over 500,000 followers across social media platforms, focused on combating health misinformation and making epidemiologic science accessible to lay audiences. She has served as a science communication expert for international public health initiatives including Team Halo (a United Nations Verified initiative) and Project FIDES (World Health Organization), producing public-facing content to help build vaccine confidence globally.

 

Opinion Pieces and Thought Leadership

Education

Ph.D. Epidemiology, 2013, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Dissertation: ProCEED (Prostate Cancer Study of Ethnicity, Exercise and Diet) - awarded $100K U.S. Department of Defense, Congressionally-Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) grant to independently design and execute dissertation research as a clinical study

NIH T32 Predoctoral Training Fellow

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

Research Currently in Progress

Economic consequences of vaccine misinformation in the 2024-2025 measles outbreak in the United States