Congratulations Dr. Kari Harland for being awarded the 2020 UI College of Public Health Outstanding Alumni Award!
This is a very prestigious award, and it reflects the important work that Dr. Harland has done through student mentorship, program development, and her research in rural health, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault prevention.
From the Award announcement:
“Kari Harland, MPH, PhD, received a Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology in 2004 and a doctoral degree in epidemiology in 2010, both from the University of Iowa College of Public Health. She is currently director of research operations in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and an adjunct assistant professor with the Department of Epidemiology at the UI College of Public Health. She was additionally trained in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health’s Heartland Center for Occupational and Health Safety as an Occupational Injury Prevention Fellow.
As a supervisor and mentor to medical students, medical residents and graduate students, Harland teaches analytical approaches and methodologies connecting classroom learning to real-world work. Her guidance has led her graduate students to win numerous awards and research grants and have resulted in many publications. In 2018, she received the University of Iowa Supervisor of the Year Award.
She is responsible for overseeing research across the entire Emergency Medicine department. She currently manages over 30 active research projects for faculty, medical fellows, medical residents, and students in pharmacy, medicine, and public health. Her strategic vision and ability to build a cohesive team has helped rapidly expand the department’s research capabilities, increasing its annual productivity by 350% over the last five years.
Harland’s own research focuses on improvement of rural health, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault prevention. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers, contributed to book chapters on domestic violence, and served as the principal or co-investigator for several NIH or CDC-funded grants.
She has established an extensive network of collaborators across Iowa and leads education and mental health interventions for youth across the state. She is a core faculty member of the UI Injury Prevention Research Center and serves as the evaluator for the CDC-funded Rape Prevention Education program housed at the Iowa Department of Public Health.”