Kate Johnson MSc, PhD

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Kate Johnson is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine. She completed her PhD in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in health economics at the Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute at the University of Washington.

Dr. Johnson is a health economics and outcomes researcher specializing in simulation modeling and comparative effectiveness evaluation with applications to respiratory disease. The overarching themes of her research are real-world evidence generation to understand disease trajectory and patterns of care, followed by simulation modeling to evaluate healthcare interventions for reducing the burden of disease on patients and the healthcare system. This work incorporates methods from epidemiology, health economics, and data science, applied to practical questions for improving the delivery of healthcare and effectiveness of interventions in respiratory medicine. Her work addresses health policy questions in the areas of 1) medication access, 2) whole disease modeling of asthma and COPD with an emphasis on evaluating strategies for prevention and early intervention, 3) the impacts of air pollution on the burden of respiratory disease and the value of climate mitigation strategies, and 4) healthcare sustainability.