Catherine Richards, MPH, PhD

Staff Scientist (equivalent to Assistant Research Professor)
Hutchinson Center for Cancer Outcomes Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1110 Fairview Ave N
Seattle, WA
USA 98109
Email: crichar2@fredhutch.org


Biographical Sketch:
I am a staff scientist at the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research at Fred Hutch in Seattle, Washington and an adjunct assistant professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University. I have a PhD in epidemiology with expertise in hospital finance, multi-level modeling, and applying Geographic Information System (GIS) methods to health services research. My expertise also includes effectively communicating public health research through data visualization. Dot Data is a blog I created and maintain with the purpose of visualizing public health.

Papers:
AT WHAT COST? EVALUATING RECENT TRENDS IN THE COSTS OF ORAL ANTICANCER DRUGS AM10 PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE DATA VISUALIZATION