{"id":25300,"date":"2026-05-08T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/?post_type=person&#038;p=25300"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:55:42","slug":"katie-burford","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/people\/katie-burford\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Burford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Katie uses geospatial analytics to<\/strong> understand how urban policies and plans impact health outcomes, especially those related to physical activity. <strong>She develops geospatial methods<\/strong> to measure built environment factors such as traffic calming features, street trees, bicycle lanes, and parks. Interests include partnering with communities, community organizations, and city governments <strong>to develop geospatial methods and tools<\/strong> that can impact policy change and improve translation of scientific evidence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25307\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25307\" src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/katie-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/katie-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/katie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/katie-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/katie-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/katie.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie translating her work on park measurement to students and faculty at the PRTM\/CGA Post Doctoral Seminar Series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":25303,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"group":[102],"person_tag":[],"class_list":["post-25300","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","group-postdoctoral-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/25300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/25300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25351,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/25300\/revisions\/25351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=25300"},{"taxonomy":"person_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_tag?post=25300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}