Dr Katherine Keenan
Director of Impact
Senior Lecturer in Demography/Population Geography
Senior Lecturer; Deputy Director (Training) of the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science
Biography
I have a multidisciplinary background in anthropology, demography, and epidemiology. After a spell working in technology, I completed an MSc Demography and Health and PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). I went on work as a postdoc at both LSHTM and LSE before joining St Andrews as a Lecturer in July 2017.
I am a visiting researcher at the Centre for Fertility and Health (Oslo), and a Faculty member of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (MPIDR-PHDS). Since 2023 I am a visiting researcher at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo (FGV), Brazil, and Associate Researcher at the Antimicrobial Resistance Institute of Sao Paulo.
From April 2024 I am serving as Deputy Director (Training) for the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science, seconded 50% of my time to the University of Edinburgh.
Teaching
I help deliver the core quantitative methods teaching for undergraduate geography and sustainable development students in St Andrews, and also deliver research-led teaching in demography, population, health inequalities and life course studies.
From 2024 I am working as the Deputy Director (training) for the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science, which works to develop core and specialist training for social science postgraduate students across Scottish universities.
Research areas
My research interests are in the complex determinants of population health, and I currently lead projects on the social dimensions of antimicrobial resistance and multimorbidity. I primarily use quantitative methods, but am an experienced mixed-methods researcher.
My current projects:
- Antimicrobial Resistance in East Africa- I was the Co-I and analysis lead on the MRC-funded HATUA consortium (2018-21) and the NIHR-funded CARE project (2020-23), and involved in several impact-related activities and PhD projects on this topic.
- Social burden of AMR in Brazil- I am an associate researcher with the Antimicrobial Resistance Institute of Sao Paulo, a FAPESP-funded Institute of Research, Diffusion and Innovation. There I work on social dimensions of AMR.
- Integenerational Continuities in Family Building Behaviours and Inequality: I am a Co-I on the ESRC-funded Connecting Generations Centre.
- Multimorbidity trajectories and their determinants in Scotland: I am the PI of a data linkage project in Scotland, with partners in Edinburgh and St Andrews.
- Social Determinants of Miscarriage- I am collaborating on an ERC funded Starting Grant (led by Heini Vaisenen at INED), which uses Scottish adminstrative data to better understand social dimensions of miscarriage.
PhD supervision
- Anastasia Lam
- Peter Dorey
- Hellen Onyango
- Xuejia Ke
- Joseph Harrison
- Michaela Stastna
- Ruhamah Thejus
- Sepideh Benvari
- Madeleine Clarkson
- Michaela Stastna
Selected publications
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Diverse early-life family trajectories and young children's mental health in the UK
Stastna, M., Mikolai, J., Finney, N. & Keenan, K. L., 2 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Family Issues. OnlineFirst, 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evidencing the intersection of environmental, socioeconomic, behavioural and demographic drivers of antibacterial resistance in East Africa
Keenan, K., Papathomas, M., Mshana, S. E., Asiimwe, B., Kiiru, J., Lynch, A. G., Kesby, M., Neema, S., Mwanga, J. R., Mushi, M. F., Green, D. L., Jing, W., Olamijuwon, E., Zhang, Q., Sippy, R., Fredricks, K. J., Gillespie, S. H., Sabiti, W., Bazira, J., Sloan, D. J., & 7 others , 15 Feb 2024, Rochester, NY: SSRN, 26 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Only children’s midlife health: chronic disease indicators and biomarkers for three nationally representative UK birth cohort studies
Chanfreau, J., Keenan, K., Barclay, K. & Goisis, A., 28 Jan 2024, SocArXiv.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Predominance of multidrug-resistant bacteria causing urinary tract infections among symptomatic patients in East Africa: a call for action
Maldonado-Barragán, A., Mshana, S. E., Keenan, K., Ke, X., Gillespie, S. H., Stelling, J., Maina, J., Bazira, J., Muhwezi, I., Mushi, M. F., Green, D. L., Kesby, M., Lynch, A. G., Sabiiti, W., Sloan, D. J., Sandeman, A., Kiiru, J., Asiimwe, B. & Holden, M. T. G., Feb 2024, In: JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 6, 1, 11 p., dlae019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Treatment seeking and antibiotic use for urinary tract infection symptoms in the time of COVID-19 in Tanzania and Uganda
Olamijuwon, E. O., Keenan, K. L., Mushi, M. F., Kansiime, C., Konje, E. T., Kesby, M., Neema, S., Asiimwe, B., Mshana, S. E., Fredricks, K. J., Sunday, B., Bazira, J., Sandeman, A. F., Sloan, D. J., Mwanga, J. R., Sabiiti, W., Holden, M. & CARE Consortium, 19 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Global Health. 14, 10 p., 05007.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Treatment seeking behaviours, antibiotic use and relationships to multi-drug resistance: a study of urinary tract infection patients in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Sado, K., Keenan, K., Manataki, A., Kesby, M., Mushi, M. F., Mshana, S. E., Mwanga, J. R., Neema, S., Asiimwe, B., Bazira, J., Kiiru, J., Green, D. L., Ke, X., Maldonado-Barragán, A., Abed Al Ahad, M., Fredricks, K. J., Gillespie, S. H., Sabiiti, W., Mmbaga, B. T., Kibiki, G., & 6 others , 16 Feb 2024, In: PLOS Global Public Health. 4, 2, 20 p., e0002709.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Younger but sicker? Cohort trends in disease accumulation among middle-aged and older adults in Scotland using health-linked data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study
Ribe, E., Cezard, GI., Marshall, A. & Keenan, K., 11 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Public Health. 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A longitudinal analysis of the association between long-term exposure to air pollution and cognitive function among adults aged 45 and over in China
Hu, K., Hale, J. M., Kulu, H., Liu, Y. & Keenan, K., 4 Mar 2023, In: Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 78, 3, p. 556-569 14 p., gbac162.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The role of multidimensional poverty in antibiotic misuse: a mixed-methods study of self-medication and non-adherence in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
Green, D. L., Keenan, K., Fredricks, K. J., Huque, S. I., Mushi, M. F., Kansiime, C., Asiimwe, B., Kiiru, J., Mshana, S. E., Neema, S., Mwanga, J. R., Kesby, M., Lynch, A. G., Worthington, H., Olamijuwon, E., Abed Al Ahad, M., Aduda, A., Njeru, J. M., Mmbaga, B. T., Bazira, J., & 14 others , 1 Jan 2023, In: The Lancet Global Health. 11, 1, p. e59-e68 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A pan-European review of good practices in early intervention safeguarding practice with children, young people and families: evidence gathering to inform a multi-disciplinary training programme (the ERICA project) in preventing child abuse and neglect in seven European countries
Appleton, J. V., Bekaert, S., Hucker, J., Zlatkute, G., Paavilainen, E., Schecke, H., Specka, M., Scherbaum, N., Jouet, E., Zabłocka-Żytka, L., Woźniak-Prus, M., Czabała, J. C., Kluczyńska, S., Bachi, B., Bartoli, F., Carrà, G., Cioni, R. M., Crocamo, C., Rantanen, H. E., Kaunonen, M., & 5 others , 1 Mar 2023, In: International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice. 6, 1, p. 119-130 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review