E Kate Webb

E Kate Webb is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. Her research focuses on understanding the biological underpinnings of stress and trauma-related disorders like PTSD, integrating neuroimaging, behavioral assessments, and geospatial methods.

• Education: Ph.D. (2021) and Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2024) from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Webb leads the Biological Embedding of the Environment and Stress (BEES) Laboratory, examining how socioenvironmental factors interact with neurobiology and individual characteristics to influence PTSD risk. Her recent work explores racial discrimination, neighborhood disadvantage, and childhood adversity as contributors to neural and health disparities.

Her publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches, including collaborations with African institutions on trauma-informed systems change and the use of animal models for scent detection research. She advocates for social justice-oriented neuroscience to address structural inequities.