Kate Diaz Vickery — Health, Homelessnness, & Criminal Justice Lab

Kate Diaz Vickery, MD, MSc,

is Co-Director and a Principal Investigator of the HHCJ Lab. Kate is a family medicine trained Primary Care Provider and Medical Director of Hennepin County Health Care for the Homeless. Her research centers on the health impacts of homelessness and the opportunities to redesign care to better meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness. This often involves the overlap of physical and behavioral health problems and integration of systems. Kate blends mixed methods in health services research with behavioral clinical trials to generate evidence about what health system delivery adaptations work best for which patients under which circumstances. In all of her work Kate strives to engage with people and communities with lived experiences aligned with the values of community-based participatory research. She completed her medical school at the University of Rochester (NY) and residency at Allina/United Family Physicians. She obtained a master’s degree in health and health care research at the University of Michigan through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.