Rate My Professor Kelly Kamm

Kamm's research interests include rural health, maternal and child health, breastfeeding, care-seeking behaviors, hand hygiene, and social determinants of health. She studies determinants of health in young children and the elderly in rural U.S. regions to develop scalable interventions improving nutrition and quality of life in low-resource communities. Key publications feature 'Barriers to and motivators of handwashing behavior among mothers of neonates in rural Bangladesh' (BMC Public Health, 2018), 'Impact of an intensive perinatal handwashing promotion intervention on maternal handwashing behavior in the neonatal period' (BioMed Research International, 2017), 'Is pregnancy a teachable moment to promote handwashing with soap among primiparous women in rural Bangladesh?' (Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2016), and 'Associations with handwashing in the home and respiratory and diarrheal illness in children under five years old in rural western Kenya' (Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2014). Awards include the Saxon Graham Award for Academic Excellence in Epidemiology (2015, 2016), First Prize at the 23rd Annual J. Warren Perry Poster Presentations (2011), University at Buffalo Presidential Fellowship (2008-2012), Outstanding Faculty Award at the 16th Annual Fraternity and Sorority Life Awards Ceremony (2022), and selection to the SDOH Hub Advisory Council (2024). She teaches KIP 2600: Introduction to Public Health and KIP 4740: Epidemiology.