Kate Holbrook, DNP, CNS, PHN
Assistant Professor
Community Health Systems
School of Nursing
Dr. Kate Holbrook is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, where she serves as the Vice Chair of the Department of Community Health Systems. She currently teaches in the BSN-to-DNP program. She has taught community/public health nursing at the pre-licensure and master’s level.
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With a clinical and academic career rooted in public health, she specializes in disaster preparedness education, population health, program development and evaluation, and mass vaccination. She has worked in public health agencies at the local and state level in clinical, program management and leadership roles for nearly a decade.
Dr. Holbrook’s work is defined by her dedication to public health and health equity both locally and globally. As an independent consultant and educator, she has developed and implemented disaster shelter training for public health nurses across 14 California counties using innovative flipped classroom approaches. Her international experience includes supervising a public health clinic network in rural Honduras, overseeing a field hospital unit in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and training rural nursing staff in India. She is an active member of several regional, statewide and national professional organizations, including the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators, California Directors of Public Health Nursing, and Bay Area Nursing Directors.
Education & Training
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- DNP Public Health Nursing University of Colorado 2025
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California San Francisco 2021
- MS Advanced Community Health and International Nursing University of California San Francisco 2011
- BA Health and Societies University of Pennsylvania 2005
Interests
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- mass vaccination
- public health nursing
- vulnerable populations
- disaster preparedness
- nursing education
Publications (9)
Top publication keywords:
Influenza VaccinesEmergency ShelterVaccination CoverageBreast FeedingAbsenteeismVaccinationUrban PopulationInfant Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaCivil DefenseDisastersInfluenza, HumanDisaster PlanningNurses, Public HealthSchool Health ServicesInfant Care
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Training Public Health Nurses on Disaster Shelter Care Using a Flipped Classroom Approach.
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness 2024 Holbrook K, Rafael M, Cho M, Morse R, Steinzig C, Nouredini S -
Partnering to prepare: An academic/workforce collaboration to develop disaster shelter training for nurses.
Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 2022 Nouredini S, Holbrook K, Ladua Z -
Evaluation of a city-wide school-located influenza vaccination program in Oakland, California with respect to race and ethnicity: A matched cohort study.
Vaccine 2021 Nguyen AT, Arnold BF, Kennedy CJ, Mishra K, Pokpongkiat NN, Seth A, Djajadi S, Holbrook K, Pan E, Kirley PD, Libby T, Hubbard AE, Reingold A, Colford JM, Benjamin-Chung J -
Evaluation of a city-wide school-located influenza vaccination program in Oakland, California, with respect to vaccination coverage, school absences, and laboratory-confirmed influenza: A matched cohort study.
PLoS medicine 2020 Benjamin-Chung J, Arnold BF, Kennedy CJ, Mishra K, Pokpongkiat N, Nguyen A, Jilek W, Holbrook K, Pan E, Kirley PD, Libby T, Hubbard AE, Reingold A, Colford JM -
Maternal sociodemographic characteristics and the use of the Iowa Infant Attitude Feeding Scale to describe breastfeeding initiation and duration in a population of urban, Latina mothers: a prospective cohort study.
International breastfeeding journal 2013 Holbrook KE, White MC, Heyman MB, Wojcicki JM
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Infant formula, tea, and water supplementation of latino infants at 4-6 weeks postpartum.
Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association 2011 Wojcicki JM, Holbrook K, Lustig RH, Caughey AB, Muñoz RF, Heyman MB -
Chronic maternal depression is associated with reduced weight gain in latino infants from birth to 2 years of age.
PloS one 2011 Wojcicki JM, Holbrook K, Lustig RH, Epel E, Caughey AB, Muñoz RF, Shiboski SC, Heyman MB -
Early exclusive breastfeeding and maternal attitudes towards infant feeding in a population of new mothers in San Francisco, California.
Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine 2010 Wojcicki JM, Gugig R, Tran C, Kathiravan S, Holbrook K, Heyman MB -
Maternal knowledge of infant feeding guidelines and label reading behaviours in a population of new mothers in San Francisco, California.
Maternal & child nutrition 2009 Wojcicki JM, Gugig R, Kathiravan S, Holbrook K, Heyman MB