Dr. Kahn has co-taught a graduate course on "Prevention Against Weapons of Mass Destruction" at Princeton in 2003 and 2004.  During this same timeframe, she co-organized a Carnegie Corporation "Biodefense Challenge" seminar series.  In addition, she organized a conference on zoonotic diseases and the need to integrate human and animal public health infrastructure to enable effective responses to bioterrorism and pandemics.  Dr. Kahn was co-director and lecturer for the course, "Zoonoses: An Emerging Public Health Issue", for graduate and medical students at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City during the Spring of 2006.

A native of California, Dr. Kahn holds a B.S. degree in nursing from UCLA, an M.D. from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, a Master of Public Health from Columbia University and a Master of Public Policy from Princeton University.  Before joining the Princeton University staff, she was a Managing Physician for the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, a Medical Officer for the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Maryland, an attending physician/educator at Prince George's Hospital in Cheverly, Maryland, and a staff physician at Gouverneur Hospital in New York, New York.  Dr. Kahn is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.