Kathryn Falb

Dr. Kathryn Falb is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Humanitarian Health with the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and current Leon S. Robertson Faculty Development Chair in Injury Prevention.

She joined Johns Hopkins from the International Rescue Committee, an international humanitarian aid organization, where she spent nearly a decade and most recently served as Research Director.

Trained as a social epidemiologist, her work integrates qualitative and quantitative methods to understand and prevent violence against women, children, and other marginalized populations, primarily in humanitarian settings. Her recent work has focused on how to prevent children from engaging in armed groups. She has conducted field research across diverse contexts, including Raqqa Governorate in Syria, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and refugee camps in Ethiopia.

Dr. Falb holds a Doctor of Science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Master of Health Science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed postdoctoral training at the Yale School of Public Health.

Dr. Falb is also a 2026 Carnegie Fellow applying lessons from humanitarian settings and child development to online polarization and offline violence of male youth in the United States.