Kathleen Durant
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research interests
- Social network analysis and visualization
- Database design
- Data science
- Personal health informatics
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Harvard University
- MS in Computer Science, Boston University
- BS in Mathematical Studies and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Biography
Kathleen Durant is an assistant teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, where she has been teaching for 13 years.
Durant was the director of analytics and the principal scientist at Silverlink Communications, where she developed health care engagement models for communication interventions to increase preventative care. She was also a National Library of Medicine research fellow at Harvard Medical School, in the Clinical Informatics Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. At the lab, she investigated online cancer forums and the topics, sentiments, concerns, and support provided by these online discussion groups.
In her spare time, she enjoys reading, cooking, collecting sea glass, skiing, traveling, and spending time with her family.
Recent publications
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Increasing Preventive Health Services via Tailored Communication
Citation: Kathleen T. Durant, Jack Newsom, Elizabeth Rubin, Glenn Pomerantz, Jan Berger. Increasing Preventive Health Services via Tailored Communication. October 2014. American Journal of Manage Care 2014; 20(10): 828-835. -
Identifying gender-preferred communication styles within online cancer communities: a retrospective, longitudinal analysis
Citation: Kathleen T. Durant, Alexa M. McCray, & Charles Safran. “Identifying gender-preferred communication styles within online cancer communities: a retrospective, longitudinal analysis”. PLOS One, November 14, 2012.