Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Center for Health Policy, Law and Management
Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Assistant Professor, Community and Family Medicine
Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
Duke University
k.whetten@duke.edu

Currently Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein teaches "Health Policy: Prevention and Management" and "Policy and Health" at Duke's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. A member of Advisory Committees for the state of North Carolina on HIV medications and care, she is also a member of a committee helping the state implement federal AIDS policy decisions under the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and is the chair of a committee that reviews publications from HRSA funded special projects. Whetten-Goldstein also serves the Duke University Center for AIDS Research on their Clinical Core Advisory Committee.

Professor Whetten-Goldstein's research has included the national economics of HIV and other chronic diseases, substance abuse policies, cost containment, and compensation structures. She has been principal investigator on significant research projects concerning AIDS care and prevention in rural North Carolina, deterrents to alcohol abuse, and social costs of disease. These and other studies have appeared in a number of medical journals, such as JAMA, the Journal of Health Economics, and the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. She is Co-Editor of Drinkers, Drivers and Bartenders: Balancing Private Choices and Public Accountability (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and two monographs on international health (University of North Carolina Press, 1992 and 1994). She has presented her research at numerous conferences on international health economics, public health, and HIV care provision.

Whetten-Goldstein is presently Principal Investigator on research grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Health Resources and Services Administration, National Institutes of Health, the Kate B. Reynolds Foundation, and several others.

As Coordinator for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Peace Corps Joint Initiative, Professor Whetten-Goldstein developed a Masters of Public Health Program between the Peace Corps and UNC's School of Public Health. She also worked in international health in Zaire as a public health training director, and has studied in Brazil, Beijing, Schenectady, Chapel Hill and Maine.