Dr. Katherine Morris

Katherine Morris is a research scientist on the Demography and Survey Science team at Facebook. She works on web surveys that inform decisions both within and outside Facebook, with a focus on survey measurement strategies for machine learning ground truth. She previously worked at NORC at the University of Chicago, which is an independent research organization. There she supported several projects within the Population Research Center and the Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging. She received her PhD in sociology from Harvard University.

In her impulse session with Professor Frauke Kreuter, Dr. Morris will present on the COVID-19 Symptom Surveys in partnership with the University of Maryland and Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to the Symptom Surveys, Facebook Data for Good has a number of tools and initiatives that can help organizations respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This Talk will be held in English. For more English-language talks, check out this overview.