Laura McKieran

Laura McKieran is an Associate Professor at the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in San Antonio, specializing in Management, Policy & Community Health. She earned her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree in 1998 from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSCH-Houston School of Public Health). As Executive Director of Community Information Now (CI:Now), she leads a nonprofit data intermediary organization focused on community health systems and policy research.

• Affiliation: Center for Health Systems Research, Policy, and Practice
• Expertise: Health systems, performance improvement, outcome-focused planning, community assessment, and evaluation
• Career History: United Way of America (1998), New York Academy of Medicine, CentroMed (2001-2008), independent consulting practice

Research Interests include:

• Behavioral/Mental Health
• Big Data/Data Science
• GIS/Spatio-temporal Data Analysis
• Health Equity
• Social Determinants of Health

Scientific Leadership: Served on the Executive Committee of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (2016-2019) and received the NNIP Network Steward Award in 2021.