Kate Walsh

Biography

Dr. Walsh is a licensed clinical psychologist, Professor in the Psychology and Gender & Women’s Studies departments, and director of UW–Madison’s Sexual Violence Research Initiative. She earned her PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in traumatic stress at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina and a substance use epidemiology fellowship from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She was an assistant professor at Yeshiva University before joining UW–Madison in the fall of 2020.

Research areas

Sexual violence Increasing access to and care during forensic nurse exams for Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ2S sexual assault survivors; Early interventions to prevent PTSD and substance misuse