Kate Smith PhD is Associate Professor of Medical Science and Senior Associate Dean of Biology Education. She is a member of the Division of Biology and Medicine leadership council and administrative leader of undergraduate, master’s and doctoral education. With training in infectious disease ecology and biogeography, Dean Smith joined the University in 2008. Her scholarship focuses on planetary health and STEM education. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Science, Ecology Letters, One Health and Conservation Biology. Dean Smith teaches courses on planetary health to undergraduate and medical students and co-chairs the Planetary Health Curriculum Integration Committee at The Warren Alpert Medical School. She is recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Advising and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences. She earned her BS in biology from The University of New Mexico and a PhD from the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology from The University of California Santa Barbara.
| Monteiro, Kristina, Davy, Ciciely, Maurier, Jesse, Smith, Katherine F. "Planetary Health—Global Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Disease: A New Undergraduate Online Asynchronous Course." Challenges, vol. 14, no. 3, 2023, pp. 36. |
| Eskew, Evan A., White, Allison M., Ross, Noam, Smith, Kristine M., Smith, Katherine F., Rodríguez, Jon Paul, Zambrana-Torrelio, Carlos, Karesh, William B., Daszak, Peter. "United States wildlife and wildlife product imports from 2000–2014." Scientific Data, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020. |
| Amaral-Zettler LA, Schmidt V, Smith KF. "Microbial Community and Potential Pathogen Shifts Along an Ornamental Fish Supply Chain." Microorganisms, vol. 6, no. 3, 2018, pp. 91. |
| Schmidt, Victor, Gomez-Chiarri, Marta, Roy, Chelsea, Smith, Katherine, Amaral-Zettler, Linda. "Subtle Microbiome Manipulation Using Probiotics Reduces Antibiotic-Associated Mortality in Fish." mSystems, vol. 2, no. 6, 2017. |
| Stephens PR, Altizer S, Smith KF, Alonso Aguirre A, Brown JH, Budischak SA, Byers JE, Dallas TA, Jonathan Davies T, Drake JM, Ezenwa VO, Farrell MJ, Gittleman JL, Han BA, Huang S, Hutchinson RA, Johnson P, Nunn CL, Onstad D, Park A, Vazquez-Prokopec GM, Schmidt JP, Poulin R. "The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts." Ecology Letters, vol. 19, no. 9, 2016, pp. 1159-71. |
| Jean, Kévin, Burnside, William R., Carlson, Lynn, Smith, Katherine, Guégan, Jean-François. "An equilibrium theory signature in the island biogeography of human parasites and pathogens." Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 25, no. 1, 2015, pp. 107-116. |
| Schmidt VT, Smith KF, Melvin DW, Amaral-Zettler LA. "Community assembly of a euryhaline fish microbiome during salinity acclimation." Molecular Ecology, vol. 24, no. 10, 2015, pp. 2537-50. |
| Rosenthal, Samantha R., Ostfeld, Richard S., McGarvey, Stephen T., Lurie, Mark N., Smith, Katherine F. "Redefining disease emergence to improve prioritization and macro-ecological analyses." One Health, vol. 1, 2015, pp. 17-23. |
| Casey, Christine L., Hernandez, Sonia M., Yabsley, Michael J., Smith, Katherine F., Sanchez, Susan. "The carriage of antibiotic resistance by enteric bacteria from imported tokay geckos (Gekko gecko) destined for the pet trade." Science of The Total Environment, vol. 505, 2015, pp. 299-305. |
| Smith KF, Goldberg M, Rosenthal S, Carlson L, Chen J, Chen C, Ramachandran S. "Global rise in human infectious disease outbreaks." Journal of The Royal Society Interface, vol. 11, no. 101, 2014, pp. 20140950. |
| McAlarnen, Lindsey, Smith, Katherine, Brownstein, John S., Jerde, Christopher. "Internet and Free Press Are Associated with Reduced Lags in Global Outbreak Reporting." PLoS Curr, 2014. |
| Perrings, Charles, Castillo-Chavez, Carlos, Chowell, Gerardo, Daszak, Peter, Fenichel, Eli P., Finnoff, David, Horan, Richard D., Kilpatrick, A. Marm, Kinzig, Ann P., Kuminoff, Nicolai V., Levin, Simon, Morin, Benjamin, Smith, Katherine F., Springborn, Michael. "Merging economics and epidemiology to improve the prediction and management of infectious disease." EcoHealth, vol. 11, no. 4, 2014, pp. 464-75. |
| Casey, Christine L., Hernandez, Sonia M., Yabsley, Michael J., Smith, Katherine F., Sanchez, Susan. "The Influence of the Conditions of the Pet Trade on the Commensal Gastrointestinal Flora of Wild-Caught Tokay Geckos (Gekko gecko)." Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery, vol. 23, no. 3-4, 2013, pp. 74-82. |
| Heard MJ, Smith KF, Ripp KJ, Berger M, Chen J, Dittmeier J, Goter M, McGarvey ST, Ryan E. "The Threat of Disease Increases as Species Move Toward Extinction." Conservation Biology, vol. 27, no. 6, 2013, pp. 1378-88. |
| Smith KM, Smith KF, D'Auria JP. "Exotic pets: health and safety issues for children and parents." Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners, vol. 26, no. 2, 2012, pp. e2-6. |
| Smith KF, Schmidt V, Rosen GE, Amaral-Zettler L. "Microbial diversity and potential pathogens in ornamental fish aquarium water." PLoS ONE, vol. 7, no. 9, 2012, pp. e39971. |
| Smith KF, Yabsley MJ, Sanchez S, Casey CL, Behrens MD, Hernandez SM. "Salmonella isolates from wild-caught Tokay geckos (Gekko gecko) imported to the U.S. from Indonesia." Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.), vol. 12, no. 7, 2012, pp. 575-82. |
| Heard M, Smith KF, Ripp K. "Examining the evidence for chytridiomycosis in threatened amphibian species." PLoS ONE, vol. 6, no. 8, 2011, pp. e23150. |
| Smith, Katherine F., Guégan, Jean-François. "Changing Geographic Distributions of Human Pathogens." Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., vol. 41, no. 1, 2010, pp. 231-250. |
| Rosen GE, Smith KF. "Summarizing the evidence on the international trade in illegal wildlife." EcoHealth, vol. 7, no. 1, 2010, pp. 24-32. |
| Smith KF, Behrens M, Schloegel LM, Marano N, Burgiel S, Daszak P. "Ecology. Reducing the risks of the wildlife trade." Science, vol. 324, no. 5927, 2009, pp. 594-5. |
| Smith KF. "Global pathogen distributions: a win-win for disease ecology and biogeography." EcoHealth, vol. 6, no. 4, 2009, pp. 479-80. |
| Smith, Katherine F., Behrens, Michael D., Sax, Dov F. "Local Scale Effects of Disease on Biodiversity." EcoHealth, vol. 6, no. 2, 2009, pp. 287-295. |
| Sax DF, Smith KF, Thompson AR. "Managed relocation: a nuanced evaluation is needed." Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 24, no. 9, 2009, pp. 472-3; author reply 476-7. |
| Smith, K. F., Acevedo-Whitehouse, K., Pedersen, A. B. "The role of infectious diseases in biological conservation." Animal Conservation, vol. 12, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-12. |
| Fox, Helen E, Kareiva, Peter, Silliman, Brian, Hitt, Jessica, Lytle, David A, Halpern, Benjamin S, Hawkes, Christine V, Lawler, Joshua, Neel, Maile, Olden, Julian D, Schlaepfer, Martin A, Smith, Katherine, Tallis, Heather. "Why do we fly? Ecologists' sins of emission." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 7, no. 6, 2009, pp. 294-296. |
| Smith, Katherine F., Behrens, Michael D., Max, Lisa M., Daszak, Peter. "U.S. drowning in unidentified fishes: Scope, implications, and regulation of live fish import." Conservation Letters, vol. 1, no. 2, 2008, pp. 103-109. |
| Smith, Katherine F., Sax, Dov F., Gaines, Steven D., Guernier, Vanina, Guégan, Jean-François. "GLOBALIZATION OF HUMAN INFECTIOUS DISEASE." Ecology, vol. 88, no. 8, 2007, pp. 1903-1910. |
| Smith KF, Sax DF, Lafferty KD. "Evidence for the role of infectious disease in species extinction and endangerment." Conservation Biology, vol. 20, no. 5, 2006, pp. 1349-57. |
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Smith, Katherine F., Carpenter, Shannon M.
"Potential spread of introduced black rat (Rattus rattus) parasites to endemic deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) on the California Channel Islands." Diversity |
| Smith, Katherine F. "Third Biennial Conference of the International Biogeography Society." Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, vol. 87, no. 4, 2006, pp. 398-398. |
| Sax, Dov F., Kinlan, Brian P., Smith, Katherine F. "A conceptual framework for comparing species assemblages in native and exotic habitats." Oikos, vol. 108, no. 3, 2005, pp. 457-464. |
| Smith, Katherine F., Dobson, Andrew P., McKenzie, F Ellis, Real, Leslie A., Smith, David L., Wilson, Mark L. "Ecological theory to enhance infectious disease control and public health policy." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 3, no. 1, 2005, pp. 29-37. |
| Smith, Katherine F., Dobson, Andrew P., McKenzie, F Ellis, Real, Leslie A., Smith, David L., Wilson, Mark L. "Ecological theory to enhance infectious disease control and public health policy." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 3, no. 1, 2005, pp. 29-37. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | PhD | University of California |
| 2001 | BS | University of New Mexico |
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Advising and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences, Brown University. 2015.
Early Career Award for Exceptional Contribution to the Field of EcoHealth, International Association for Ecology and Health. 2010.
David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow 2006-2008
Doctoral Fellow, American Association of University Women. 2005.
Doctoral Fellow, University of California President's Doctoral Dissertation Award. 2005.
NSF Research Fellow, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 2001.
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Martin, Kyle | Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Clinician Educator |
| Monteiro, Kristina | Director of Academic Assessment and Evaluation, Lecturer in Biology |
| Ramachandran, Sohini | Director of the Data Science Institute, Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology and Data Science and Professor of Computer Science. |
| BIOL 0100 - Living Biology at Brown and Beyond |
| BIOL 0100A - Living Biology at Brown and Beyond |
| BIOL 0530 - Principles of Immunology |
| BIOL 1455 - Planetary Health: Global Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Disease |
