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Catherine C. Shoults, M.P.H., Analyst, conducts and analyzes research on public health issues. Shoults’ work focuses on the synthesis and communication of research, including health impact assessments, to policymakers and lay audiences. Her main areas of focus are early childhood mental health, immunizations and rural health. Shoults earned a master’s degree with an emphasis in microbial disease epidemiology from Yale School of Public Health. While at Yale, Shoults received a certificate in emergency preparedness and disaster response. She interned at the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Emergency Preparedness Office, where she built situational-awareness dashboards for and assisted in responding to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Missouri State University, where she studied biology and chemistry.