Katherine L. Chen

Job title: 
Public Engagement and Policy Lead
Department: 
Safe Transportation Research and Education Center
Lead Researcher
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Katherine Chen is the Public Engagement and Policy Lead at SafeTREC, where she coordinates multidisciplinary transportation injury prevention planning and research. She manages the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP) as well as projects involving active transportation, teen driver safety, community-level safety planning, and statewide highway safety planning. 

Previously, Chen coordinated public health research with community health centers and served as an Emerson National Hunger Fellow. Chen received her B.A. in Public Health from UC Berkeley, and her M.P.P. from the University of Michigan.