Katherine R. Standish, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Katherine Standish completed her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University and her medical degree at Yale School of Medicine. After college Katherine worked in community-based public health research, studying harm reduction efforts among injection drug users, first in New York City at the New York Academy of Medicine and then in Tijuana, Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. She then moved to Nicaragua, where she managed pediatric dengue studies at the Sustainable Sciences Institute. Back in her hometown of New Haven for medical school, she served as director of the student-run HAVEN Free Clinic, which provides primary care in a mostly immigrant neighborhood. While at Yale, she helped design a community health orientation to the city of New Haven for incoming medical students, and participated in redesigning the public health and cultural competency components of the medical school curriculum. Katherine is particularly interested in maternal-child health, lactation, immigrant health, and the ethical dimensions of global health and community health endeavors.

Publications

  • Published 5/6/2025

    Demirci JR, Standish K, Asiodu IV. Evidence Supports Breastfeeding Interventions in Primary Care, but Implementation Is Still Challenging. JAMA. 2025 May 06; 333(17):1495-1497. PMID: 40198080.

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  • Published 5/1/2025

    Kalluri NS, Cordova-Ramos EG, Hwang SS, Standish KR, Parker MG. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mother's Milk Provision Among Mothers of Preterm Infants. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 May 01; 8(5):e2510781. PMID: 40377941.

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  • Published 2/28/2025

    Tilhou AS, Gasman S, Wang J, Standish K, White LF, Cogan A, Devlin M, Larochelle M, Adams WG. Assessing inequities in buprenorphine treatment across the care cascade. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2025 May 01; 270:112636. PMID: 40043350.

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  • Published 11/18/2024

    Tanabe M, Pennington K, Standish K, Goldman A. Improving Residency Training in Refugee and Immigrant Health Care at an Urban Academic Family Medicine Residency. J Immigr Minor Health. 2025 Feb; 27(1):177-180. PMID: 39556278.

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  • Published 11/6/2024

    Kalluri NS, Cordova-Ramos EG, Hwang SS, Standish KR, Parker MG. National Trends in Breastfeeding by Gestational Age Category. J Pediatr. 2025 Feb; 277:114388. PMID: 39515750.

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