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Katherine Burke
Visiting Scholar, Human and Planetary Health
BioKathy Burke is a Senior Advisor and Lecturer at the Human and Planetary Health initiative in the Doerr School for Sustainability and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Innovation in Global Health. She is a co-instructor in SUSTAIN 103 Human and Planetary Health. She works across campus advancing the field of human and planetary health, setting strategy, creating and advising teams, and bringing new voices to campus.
In 2019-20 she was a Distinguished Career Institute Fellow, studying climate impacts on health.
From 2015-19, she served as Deputy Director of Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, where she co-created and led the inaugural Women Leaders in Global Health conference in 2017 and the international Planetary Health Alliance Annual Meeting in 2019, both hosted at Stanford. She co-founded WomenLIFT, an innovative leadership training program for mid-career professionals around the world, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Ms. Burke spent 15 years as a reporter, editor and publishing executive. She earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a Master of Science in Global Health Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco.
Kathy enjoys working at the interfaces of disciplines and sectors and creating cross-cutting teams to address big social problems. Ms. Burke serves on the Board of Dean’s Advisers at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and the Advisory Council for Stanford University Libraries. -
Mai Ly Tran Burke
Masters Student in Human Genetics and Genetic Counseling, admitted Autumn 2024
BioI am Mai Ly Burke, a junior at Stanford University majoring in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. My interests lie in genetics, neurobiology, and cancer biology. I plan to apply my passion for these topics to develop innovative therapies and technologies to better treat diseases like cancer. Having grown up in Vietnam—a country that grapples with many serious diseases—my work is fueled by a genuine passion for improving lives and giving back to my community. Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have!
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Marshall Burke
Associate Professor of Environmental Social Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, at the Woods Institute for the Environment, at SIEPR and Associate Professor, by courtesy of Earth System Science
BioMarshall Burke is an associate professor in Global Environmental Policy unit in the Doerr School of Sustainability, deputy director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Woods Institute, and SIEPR at Stanford University. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a co-founder of AtlasAI, a remote sensing start-up. His research focuses on social and economic impacts of environmental change and on measuring and understanding economic development in emerging markets. His work has appeared in both economic and scientific journals, including recent publications in Nature, Science, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Lancet. He holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in international relations from Stanford University.
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Melanie Burkett
Undergraduate Advising Director, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordUndergraduate Advising Director, Neighborhood D
