Cuba Medical School Scholarship Program

About Kathryn

      For over thirty years, as a public health administrator, community health educator and advocate in the public and private sectors, Kathryn has been addressing the racial and gender divide in women’s access to healthcare. Her work has culminated in Birthing Project USA: The Underground Railroad for New Life, which is a global maternal and child health organization. Her experience in understanding, translating and bridging policy, administration, services delivery and client cultures have earned her national and international recognition, including CNN Hero and one of Twenty One Leaders of the 21st Centery by Women E-News, Kathryn has received the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health, Lifetime Achievement Award and was elected as an Ashoka Fellow in 2007. She is an independent, certified scholar of the Cuban Public Health System and serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing (IFCO), the administrator of the US/Cuba Medical School Scholarship Program. As faculty at the University of San Francisco, she is helping to develop the Public Health Leadership Program for the Sacramento campus. She is a consultant and mentor to many community leaders, students and young professionals, to whom she is affectionately known as Mama Katt.