Rate My Professor Kathryn Grace

Grace's research specializations center on population geography, investigating the role of contextual factors in maternal and child health outcomes, with emphases on reproductive health, family planning decision-making, climate variability impacts, food security, child malnutrition, and population-environment interactions in vulnerable communities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Her key publications include "Global urban population exposure to extreme heat" (2021), "Climate change, global food security, and the US food system" (2015), "Child malnutrition and climate in Sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of recent trends in Kenya" (2012), "Linking climate change and health outcomes: Examining the relationship between temperature, precipitation and birth weight in Africa" (2015), "Stunted from the start: Early life weather conditions and child undernutrition in Ethiopia" (2020), "Do markets and trade help or hurt the global food system adapt to climate change?" (2017), and more recent works such as "Investigating Seasonal Agriculture, Contraceptive Use, and Pregnancy in Burkina Faso" (2023) and "Conflict and Climate Factors and the Risk of Child Acute Malnutrition" (2022). Among her honors are the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Scholar of the College (2019-2022), Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques Visiting Researcher Fellowships (2015, 2020), and the Demographic and Health Survey Population and Reproductive Health Fellowship (2007). Grace contributes editorially as Deputy Editor of Demography since 2022 and serves on boards for journals including Population and Environment, Spatial Demography, and Discover Social Science and Health. She has led as President of the Population Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (2019-2022).