Before joining Sidra in November 2017, she spent a year in Uganda as an Afya Bora Global Health Leadership Fellow, where she worked with a local NGO to establish partner notification and HIV testing services for the sexual partners of individuals newly diagnosed with HIV. Prior to her time in Africa, Katherine worked for MultiCare Health System in the Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery department at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, WA. She also has 4 years of experience in adult orthopedics, having worked in joint replacement and sports medicine at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, ID.