University of Hartford
Nursing Department
200 Bloomfield Avenue
College of ENHP
West Hartford
CTUSA
06117
Biographical Sketch: Katharine Kranz Lewis received her nursing degree from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada in 1992. She worked as a staff nurse at Bellevue Hospital, a school nurse within the Department of Public Health and as Director of Patient Services for a privately owned homecare agency, all within New York City. In 1997 she completed MSN/MPH degrees at Hunter College and later earned a PhD in social policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School. She worked as a research associate and then deputy director with the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum. Katharine is now an assistant professor at the University of Hartford, where she recently founded the Connecticut Public Health Policy Institute within the Department of Nursing. Her research interests include comparative analyses of public health systems nationally and internationally, and the intersection of public health and health policy.