Kathryn Andersen Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, Nc

You are already whole and complete. Let's work together to cultivate the conditions that allow your essential goodness and wholeness to unfold.Visit my website at www.kathrynandersencoaching.com to learn more about my work.

Chapel Hill, Nc

As Chief Scientific and Technical Officer, I set Ipas’s strategic technical direction and research agenda in support of the organizational strategic plan and mission. I lead Ipas’s work to understand and advance key issues in abortion and contraception care; such as increasing evidence for women’s self-use of medication abortion, measuring abortion quality, as well as abortion care for women experiencing gender-based violence and women in humanitarian settings. My position involves leading technical teams and the organization on advancing key issues in abortion and contraception care within developing countries. I work and collaborate with country and global staff to create tools, evidence and technical resources to increase the program’s quality and impact.During my 11-year tenure at Ipas, I have managed various research projects at Ipas and have provided technical support and guidance to researchers across the organization. My own research work is focused in India, Myanmar, and Nepal. My professional interests include understanding and reducing abortion-related maternal mortality; eliminating violence against women; improving reproductive health care access and understanding associated costs; and translating research into policy and practice.Ipas is a global nongovernmental organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities from unsafe abortion. Through local, national and global partnerships, Ipas works to ensure that women can obtain safe, respectful and comprehensive abortion care, including counseling and contraception to prevent future unintended pregnancies.

Chapel Hill, Nc

UNC Chapel Hill Department of Maternal & Child Health is dedicated to improving the health of women, children and families — domestically and globally. The teaching program provides students with broad exposure to maternal and child health population needs and priorities, as well as the skills to become leaders of tomorrow.

Nc

As Statistical Project Manager I assisted with secondary data collection and statistical analysis, and participated in report and manuscript writing. Additionally, I guided a project concerning measures of state capacity and service use and other outcomes for children with special health care needs.

Chapel Hill, Nc

The UNC Chapel Hill Department of Biostatistics department is recognized as a worldwide leader in research and practice. Members of the faculty are interested both in development of statistical methodology and application of statistics in applied research. Some of the work that the department excels in is the development of new statistical methods to address pressing issues in medicine and public health sciences as well as the design of innovative clinical trials that allow faster evaluation of new therapeutic agents.

Nc

In my position as Statistical Project Manager I was involved with study design, questionnaire development, and data tracking systems. I also provided statistical analysis and expertise and participated in manuscript preparation and grant writing. The projects I managed include focus groups concerning the needs of intimate partner violence victims, the effect of state Medicaid policies on smoking cessation during pregnancy, and an intervention promoting prevention of pregnancy and STDs/HIV.

Chapel Hill, Nc

As Senior Advisor/Manager I provided technical support to the Research and Evaluation Unit, including identifying and implementing appropriate research methodologies (both quantitative and qualitative); supporting data management and statistical analysis; and participating in analysis and dissemination of findings. Ipas is a global nongovernmental organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities from unsafe abortion. Through local, national and global partnerships, Ipas works to ensure that women can obtain safe, respectful and comprehensive abortion care, including counseling and contraception to prevent future unintended pregnancies.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

My role at the Pacific Center for Research and Evaluation was to assist with the study design, in particular, data collection and tracking systems for Preventing Firearm Violence among Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: An Evaluation of a New North Carolina Law.PIRE is an independent, nonprofit organization merging scientific knowledge and proven practice to create solutions that improve the health, safety, and well-being of individuals, communities, and nations around the world.

My contribution as a consultant involved assisting with study design and questionnaire development, creating data entry systems; entering, cleaning, and analyzing study data as well as preparing final reports and presentations to disseminate findings.

Chapel Hill, Nc

My responsibilities included assisting with study design and questionnaire development for various studies, creating data entry systems, analyzing study data, preparing final reports and presentations to disseminate findings and creating annotated bibliography using standardized abstraction forms.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

As Director of Early Childhood Ministries I provided training for classroom teachers regarding health, safety and curriculum issues and planned and organized educational programming for parents of children ages birth to five years. Furthermore I recruited, scheduled and supervised childcare workers and volunteers and coordinated educational and social programs for parents of the church and the preschool.Myers Park Baptist Church was founded in 1943 by a visionary group of families that shared a dream: to build a church that welcomed all, embodied Christ’s teachings, and reflected the spirit of religious freedom rooted in the Baptist tradition. They also envisioned a place where people would have the right to interpret scripture for themselves, and where congregants could serve as priests to one another.

Chapel Hill, Nc

At the Sheps Center I was responsible for reading studies on preterm birth and extracting relevant methodological information. In addition, I reviewed the ethics codes of professional health-related organizations, reconciled and summarized the reviews with a clinician reviewer. and provided evidence tables, and comments .

Chapel Hill, Nc

My role in the Transitions in Pregnancy Study was to create assessment tools based in relevant literature, develop administrative processes through collaboration with clinicians and study personnel, conduct interviewer training and provide ongoing support to interviewers and oversee data entry and analysis.

Chapel Hill, Nc

My position involved assisting in the organization and documentation of the current system and performing short-term analysis on violence and substance using women.

Duke University, Durham, Nc

As a Clinical Trials Statistician I developed forms and randomization schemes; prepared analysis plans; wrote statistical methods and conducted interim and final analysis and reporting. In addition I assisted with teaching the introductory statistics course in Duke’s Biometry Training Program and conducted data analysis and reporting for manuscripts using data from large clinical trials in cardiology.

Durham, Nc

As Research Assistant to Dr. Laura Svetkey I was involved in editing and checking data; conducting analysis and creating a presentation of the final results. I explored the reliability among measures of salt sensitivity and ethnic variations within these measures in hypertension research.

Chapel Hill, Nc

In this position I facilitated data management and programming using primarily SAS and Splus. I developed questionnaires, wrote technical reports and conducted in-person interviews with women in physically abusive relationships for the Relationships and Health Study. Additionally, I supervised work study students.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Maternal And Child Health

Master Of Science (M.S.), Biostatistics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Statistics & French