Katherine Brooks, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

She also serves as a Clinical Lead in SF DPH's Information and Guidance Department.

Her interests are in understanding and addressing racial health disparities, as well as the impact of clinician bias on clinical decision making. She has developed curriculum to teach medical students how to think about intersections between race, racism and medicine. She is also interested in how climate change impacts individual and public health. Katie's research has focused on health disparities in a variety of areas- including HIV in resource limited settings internationally and nationally, premature mortality among African Americans, access to cardiology subspecialty care for heart failure admissions and care for the incarcerated patient.

• A Silent Curriculum.
  JAMA 2020 Brooks KC
• Identification of Racial Inequities in Access to Specialized Inpatient Heart Failure Care at an Academic Medical Center.
  Circulation. Heart failure 2019 Eberly LA, Richterman A, Beckett AG, Wispelwey B, Marsh RH, Cleveland Manchanda EC, Chang CY, Glynn RJ, Brooks KC, Boxer R, Kakoza R, Goldsmith J, Loscalzo J, Morse M, Lewis EF, Abel S, Adams A, Anaya…
• The Purple Heart.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2019 Brooks KC
• HIV-1 second-line failure and drug resistance at high-level and low-level viremia in Western Kenya.
  AIDS (London, England) 2018 Kantor R, DeLong A, Schreier L, Reitsma M, Kemboi E, Orido M, Obonge S, Boinett R, Rono M, Emonyi W, Brooks K, Coetzer M, Buziba N, Hogan J, Diero L
• Addressing racial bias in wards.
  Advances in medical education and practice 2018 Tsai J, Brooks K, DeAndrade S, Ucik L, Bartlett S, Osobamiro O, Wynter J, Krishna G, Rougas S, George P
• High discordance in blood and genital tract HIV-1 drug resistance in Indian women failing first-line therapy.
  The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2018 Saravanan S, Gomathi S, Delong A, Kausalya B, Sivamalar S, Poongulali S, Brooks K, Kumarasamy N, Balakrishnan P, Solomon SS, Cu-Uvin S, Kantor R
• When Race Matters on the Wards: Talking About Racial Health Disparities and Racism in the Clinical Setting.
  MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2016 Brooks KC, Rougas S, George P
• Treatment failure and drug resistance in HIV-positive patients on tenofovir-based first-line antiretroviral therapy in western Kenya.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2016 Brooks K, Diero L, DeLong A, Balamane M, Reitsma M, Kemboi E, Orido M, Emonyi W, Coetzer M, Hogan J, Kantor R
• Global epidemiology of drug resistance after failure of WHO recommended first-line regimens for adult HIV-1 infection: a multicentre retrospective cohort study.
  The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2016 TenoRes Study Group
• Patient Perspectives on the Need for and Barriers to Professional Medical Interpretation.
  Rhode Island medical journal (2013) 2016 Brooks K, Stifani B, Batlle HR, Nunez MA, Erlich M, Diaz J
• HemaSpot, a Novel Blood Storage Device for HIV-1 Drug Resistance Testing.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2015 Brooks K, DeLong A, Balamane M, Schreier L, Orido M, Chepkenja M, Kemboi E, D'Antuono M, Chan PA, Emonyi W, Diero L, Coetzer M, Kantor R
• A Student Collaboration to Address Mental Health Wellness in Medical School.
  Rhode Island medical journal (2013) 2015 Brooks K, Karp L, Batlle HR, Chiu M, Montross C
• A piece of my mind. A silent curriculum.
  JAMA 2015 Brooks KC
• Allocating HIV treatment to the adherent: a qualitative study of patient perceptions of their HIV care in the Dominican Republic.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2014 Brooks K, Laws MB, Wilson I