Kate Zinszer

Lab Director

is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Université de Montréal and a researcher with the Centre de Recherche en Santé Publique at the Universite of Montreal. Her main research focus is on vector-borne diseases using a variety of tools to untangle the causes, forecast future burdens, and evaluate intervention effectiveness of vector-borne diseases. Prior to joining UdeM in 2017, she obtained her PhD in Epidemiology at McGill University with David Buckeridge in the Surveillance Lab as her supervisor. Her postdoctorate training was at Harvard Medical School with the Computational Epidemiology Group, with John Brownstein as her supervisor. Dr Zinszer has also worked in Canada as a communicable disease epidemiologist and Field Epidemiologist.