Katherine Standish
Principal Investigator
Dr. Standish a clinician and researcher in the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University and is co-founder of the Breastfeeding Equity Center at BMC, which aims to increase equity in breastfeeding support and outcomes. She practices breastfeeding medicine and is participating in the first breastfeeding medicine fellowship in the U.S. Her research addresses breastfeeding services and interventions in marginalized and high-risk populations. She currently serves as Chair of the Protocol Committee of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. She is director of the scholarship curriculum for the BMC Family Medicine Residency and is core faculty in the BMC Maternal Health Equity Preventive Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Standish studied medicine at Yale University, completed residency training and a primary care academic fellowship at Boston Medical Center, and earned an MS in Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Prior to studying medicine, she worked in epidemiologic and community-based participatory research on opioid use disorder and infectious diseases in the U.S., Mexico, and Nicaragua.