Katherine Andrinopoulos

Katherine Andrinopoulos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health Systems and Development at Tulane University's Stone Center for Latin American Studies. She specializes in gender, stigma, HIV/AIDS, and family planning within global health contexts, particularly in Central America and the Caribbean. Her work emphasizes marginalized populations including sex workers, gender minorities, and incarcerated individuals.

Dr. Andrinopoulos holds a Ph.D. in International Health from Johns Hopkins University (2008), an M.H.S. from Johns Hopkins (2003), and a B.S. in Public Health from UNC Chapel Hill (1999). She has conducted fieldwork in over 10 countries, including extended research in Haiti, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. Her academic leadership includes directing Tulane's International Health and Development doctoral program since 2008.

Her research focuses on intersectional health disparities, with notable projects on HIV stigma in correctional facilities, social norms around gender-based violence in Honduras, and participatory mapping methods to study environmental risk exposures among female sex workers. She has secured NIH and Fogarty grants and is a Newcomb Fellow at Tulane.

Dr. Andrinopoulos has supervised 6 theses/dissertations in the last five years and contributed to over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Her work frequently addresses structural barriers to healthcare access, including discrimination against LGBTQ+ communities and gender minorities. She also explores innovative interventions like transfluthrin mosquito repellent systems in malaria-endemic regions.

Awards include the James P. Dixon Award (UNC 1999) and Fulbright Scholarships (Dominican Republic 1999-2001, Jamaica 2005). She speaks Spanish and Greek, reflecting her commitment to multilingual fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean.