Katherine States Burke is a Senior Fellow in Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Her interests include advancing centers of excellence in low-resource settings and using digital learning materials to train and support health professionals in Africa.

Educated at Harvard University, Ms. Burke began her career as a journalist and served as a writer, editor and publishing executive in legal and consumer publications. In the past decade, she returned to an early interest in health and earned a Master of Science in Global Health Sciences from UCSF. She also has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Ms. Burke leads the UCSF Centers of Excellence Project and serves on several boards, including the Board of Dean's Advisors at the Harvard School of Public Health. She lives in San Francisco, California, with her husband and three sons.

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