Kate Macintyre, PhD, is an assistant professor at Tulane University’s Department of International Health and Development. Dr. Macintyre completed her doctoral research in 1997, her thesis was entitled: "Tradeoffs Between Precision and Cost: A Field test of Rapid Survey Methods for Family Planning Evaluation." This work expanded Dr. Macintyre’s interest in data collection techniques, rapid evaluation methodologies and reproductive health in developing countries.

Prior to graduate school, Dr. Macintyre gained considerable experience, over six years, in the design, implementation, and management of community development programs in health and other sectors in East Africa. In addition to her work in the non-governmental field, she has conducted research and evaluations for various child survival and adolescent reproductive health programs for UNICEF, UNFPA and Save the Children Fund.  Dr. Macintyre’s current research focuses on adolescent health program evaluation and community based control of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases – malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.  Her main research projects include an impact evaluation of an adolescent health lifeskills program in KwaZulu Natal. This panel survey of 3000 adolescents, their families and communities is funded by USAID and the Rockefeller Foundation, and is called “Transitions to Adulthood in the Context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.” 

She also leads the human ecological research component in a study of the impact of urban environments on malaria in Kenya, and is evaluating a new method for malaria control also in East Africa. She teaches Comparative and International Health Behavior and International Health Policy. Her doctoral training included four years as a pre-doctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Macintyre received her PhD in Health Policy and Administration from the same university.