Katherine Schaff, DrPH, MPH

Katherine Schaff joined BMSG to help build the organizational and communications capacity of local health departments, government agencies, and community-based organizations working to advance racial and health equity. Prior to joining the BMSG team, she spent 11 years at the Alameda County Public Health Department, where she helped foster racial, social and health equity through policy change, community partnerships, and building institutional and staff capacity within the health department and the county. Before moving to the Bay Area, Katherine supported local health departments through her position at the National Association of County and City Health Officials in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. in sociology and international studies from the University of Denver and her master’s of public health and doctor of public health from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral research focused on how local health departments addressed and communicated about the foreclosure crisis as a driver of health inequities.