Billings Named IAPHS Award Winner

Awards & Honors

Katie R. Billings '24, PhD candidate in sociology, has been awarded the 2024 Interdisciplinary Associate for Population Health Science (IAPHS) Student Award. This award recognizes work of notable quality, potential, and/or likely impact on the field completed by a student in the population health sciences. 

Billings is a mixed methods sociologist who studies the creation and perpetuation of inequalities in health and the law. Billing's dissertation, "Surviving Suicide," examines how social identities shape cultural narratives about firsthand suicide survival. Using 102 in-depth interviews with suicide attempt survivors, Billings explores how survivors' accounts can inform suicide prevention and post-vention strategies. Her scholarship is published in Social Science & Medicine, Law & Society Review, Sociological Perspectives, and the Utah Law Review. 

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