About Strata Health & Research Consulting

Strata helps your organization understand the layers that define your population.

Strata refer to layers upon layers that build a complex whole. At Strata Health & Research Consulting Inc., we recognize the complexities and layers involved in personal and community health. 

Strata Health & Research Consulting provides services to organizations seeking health and community research or analytical support, or methodological training. 

We apply an EcoHealth framework to research that includes:

  • Systems thinking 

  • Transdisciplinarity 

  • Participation 

  • Sustainability 

  • Social and gender equity 

  • Knowledge-to-action.

Strata Health & Research Consulting offers quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research support. We prioritize community-based, participatory approaches to community insights. 

Kate Bishop-Williams, MSc PhD

Director and Principal Consultant

Kate Bishop-Williams earned her Masters of Science in Population Medicine and her Doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of Guelph in 2014 and 2020, respectively. She is an epidemiologist with a focus on rural public health and health equity in Canada and abroad. 

Her expertise lies in:

  • epidemiology

  • research methods

  • climate change impacts on health

  • health equity and social determinants of health

  • global health, and

  • emerging diseases.

Kate worked in public health throughout the pandemic, supporting all areas of the COVID-19 Pandemic response, including outbreaks, case management, and vaccines. 

Kate has extensive experience engaging communities in needs assessments, gap analyses, and strategic visioning processes.  

Kate has published approximately 15 peer-reviewed articles and is the lead author of several governmental reports. Kate has spent years working as a science communicator and honing skills as a knowledge translation expert.

Kate is a highly skilled public health educator, having taught public health and global health courses at higher education institutions across Southern Ontario. Kate has extensive training in adult-learning principles and applies that to course and workshop design.