Laura McKieran

Laura McKieran

Laura McKieran is Executive Director of CI:Now and an Associate Professor of Management, Policy, and Community Health at the UTHealth School of Public Health in San Antonio.

She earned her Doctor of Public Health degree in 1998 from the UTHSCH-Houston School of Public Health, focusing on community involvement in health care planning and service systems. In 1998 she joined the United Way of America in Alexandria, Virginia, working in the area of program- and community-level outcome measurement. She later moved to the New York Academy of Medicine, where she provided technical assistance to communities working to broaden community participation in health-related decisionmaking. Between 2001 and 2008 she held various positions in planning, evaluation, health informatics, and grants management at CentroMed, a large Federally Qualified Health Center in San Antonio. She came to CI:Now after launching an independent consulting practice to assist nonprofits and health care organizations with community assessment, planning and evaluation, systems change, and development. In addition to overall direction, she brings particular expertise in health, performance improvement, and outcome-focused planning and measurement. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership and is a member of the Community Indicators Consortium.

Laura McKieran

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Building a City-Wide Culture of Data in San Antonio

In San Antonio, diverse community members are coming together to realize their vision of a better quality of life for residents by increasing the transparency, quality and accessibility of community data. Community leaders across all different roles and settings value good data, and recognize that using it can make them more effective. But no single organization can do everything it takes to …

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