Dr Kate Kersey is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Addiction Research in the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland. Her research explores the meanings and experiences of alcohol consumption in the contexts of people’s daily lives and broader gendered, social, economic, and cultural environments, in order to inform appropriate cohort specific policy responses. Kate also has experience in health law and regulation and public health policy.
Kate has a BCom/LLB (Hons) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand; an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, US; and a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She serves as the Social and Community Health Representative on the SoPH Board of Research at the University of Auckland.