Katherine Bliss

About Katherine Bliss

Katherine E. Bliss is senior associate with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, where she has led research on the influence of the BRICS on the global health agenda; analyzed U.S. support for maternal and child health programs in lower- and middle-income countries; and testified before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the right to water and sanitation. As a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, Bliss was a member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff. She then joined the Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science to develop foreign policy approaches to environmental health challenges. Bliss began her career as a historian of Latin America. She has taught at Georgetown University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Smith College, and the University of Chicago. She is a Fellow at the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health.