Laura McKieran
Associate Professor Non-Tenure Research
Management, Policy & Community Health
210/276-9007
One Technology Center
7411 John Smith Drive, Suite 1100, San Antonio, TX 78229
About
Laura McKieran is an Associate Professor of Management, Policy and Community Health in San Antonio and Executive Director of Community Information Now (CI:Now), a nonprofit local data intermediary staffed through and housed in the School of Public Health. She earned her Doctor of Public Health degree in 1998 from what was then called 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 served on the Executive Committee of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership from 2016 to 2019 and won the NNIP Network Steward Award in 2021.
Center Affiliation
Center for Health Systems Research, Policy, and Practice
Research Interests
- Behavioral/Mental Health
- Big Data/Data Science
- GIS/Spatio-temporal Data Analysis
- Health Equity
- Social Determinants of Health