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Katelyn (Katy) Sileo, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor at the Connell School of Nursing and faculty in the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good. She is trained in global public health, with a geographic focus on sub–Saharan Africa. Her research aims to understand and intervene on multilevel determinants of sexual and reproductive health inequities, with a particular interest in the intersection of gender norms and health outcomes in global settings. Her current work focuses on using community-engaged and mixed methods to develop and evaluate gender transformative behavioral and health system interventions to improve HIV and family planning outcomes in Uganda.

Prior to joining Boston College, Dr. Sileo was faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her Ph.D. in Global Public Health from San Diego State University and the University of California San Diego's Joint Doctoral Program in Global Health. She was a 2014-2017 NIDA Fellow in HIV/AIDS and substance abuse at the University of California San Diego, a 2016-2017 NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellow, and a 2017-2019 postdoctoral fellow in the Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program (Y-APT) in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University.