Katherine E. Bliss is Senior Fellow and Director, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Katherine is particularly interested in how cultural perspectives on health and well-being shape policy approaches to disease prevention; cross-border collaboration on health; and access to health services. Previously Katherine served as a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. Department of State. She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, the author of Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City (Penn State Press, 2001) and co-editor of Gender and Sexuality in Latin America Since Independence (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). Katherine received her A.B. in history and literature, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and her Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. She is currently writing a book regarding the Cold War experience in Mexico of U.S.-born nurse and political activist Lini de Vries.
