Katharine Olson is a research analyst at the Duke Global Health Innovation Center and Innovations in Healthcare. She provides research support to a number of projects focused on increasing access to health products and services in low-and middle-income countries through studying the end-to-end pathways of scaling from R&D to sustainable scale. Prior to joining Duke, Katharine was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana from 2018 to 2020 where her work focused on improving ARV adherence among adolescents and strengthening supply chain management for health commodities at both the local and national level.

Katharine earned in Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from Tulane University, and a Bachelor of Science in both Biology and Public Health from Furman University.