Kate Hoppe, Mph, Ma Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

CivicPoint Consulting is a management consulting firm working with a variety of organizations across the United States to co-create healthy, equitable, and resilient communities. As Owner and Principal I provide strategic and innovative solutions as well as subject matter expertise to organizations to improve their capacity for implementing initiatives that achieve positive outcomes in partnership with the communities they serve.Projects I've contracted on include:- Health Impacts of Rural Renewable Energy Transitions with the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, Stanford University, Renew Missouri, and Clean Wisconsin- Strategic and operations planning, grant acquisition with the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, for organizing, empowering, and mobilizing health professionals for how climate change is harming our health and climate solutions can improve it- MO Statewide Health Data Utility with State of Missouri MO HealthNet to evaluate technical needs in partnership with CPC subcontractor Briljent- Community Health Improvement Planning with Johnson County Department of Health and Environment to guide a team in the strategic reframing of CHIP development

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

The Kansas City, MO, Health Commission is a mayoral-appointed board that provides guidance and advice to the City’s Health Department. The Health Commission's mission is to achieve a city-wide collaboration and partnership of organizations and individuals to build a healthier community. From Oct 2018-Apr 2020 I served under the appointment of Mayor Sly James, and launched and led the KC-CHIP Committee. From May 2020-May 2021 I continued to lead the committee as Community Co-Chair. I presently serve as a committee member and liaison.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

At the YMCA of Greater Kansas City, I led the Community Integrated Health strategy for Healthy Living, leading and building a team of staff in innovating, operationalizing, and scaling evidence-based programs, technology solutions, and community-clinic collaborations to provide a continuum of care and support to community members throughout the lifespan and at every stage of their wellness journey. In addition, I served as the Site PI for a brain health program and research study in partnership with the University of Kansas Medical Center, working collaboratively to test interventions in the field for scaling across YMCA’s for Alzheimer’s prevention. I built capacity through strategic grant making with partners across healthcare, public health, business, government, schools, faith-based organizations, and community stakeholders.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

At Children's Mercy I managed NIH- and institutionally-funded implementation research projects and program evaluations focused on active living under the PI, developing methods, establishing timelines, developing and managing IRB submissions, creating data collection tools, collecting data, and coordinating with staff and departments across the institution. I also strengthened organizational collaboration in and with regional community stakeholders through grant development and partnership initiation, while also building the public health evidence-base through management and administration of, as well as supervision of staff and students assigned to research projects.

Topeka, Ks, Us

At KDHE I led and managed a cross-functional team of 10 staff in the cooperative administration, management and implementation of two Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grants totaling over $6 million annually. I simultaneously managed the state physical activity & nutrition content area, serving as the state subject matter expert in active living and community planning and design for health, as well as worksite wellness and healthy food access.

Kansas City, Ks, Us

I initiated the completion of a Health Impact Assessment of the Topeka Bike Share program, working in close partnership with the Topeka Metropolitan Transit Authority to assess through available research evidence and GIS mapping how the bike share could impact physical activity, safety and injury, access to resources, and quality of life, providing recommendations to decision-makers for supporting positive outcomes. The resulting HIA report is available on the PEW Trusts website and has informed decisions around the expansion of the Topeka Bike Share, as well as applications for additional programmatic grant funding.As evaluation and data analysis contractor for Kansas City Young Audiences (via KU Medical Center), I oversaw the development and implementation of program evaluation for the Blast Off to Health program, a healthy lifestyle intervention teaching 2nd grade students about healthy behaviors (e.g. consuming five fruits and vegetables per day), including protocol development, data management and analysis using SPSS, and interpretation of findings for KCYA's presentations to the funder, BCBSKC. As Research Assistant, I coordinated and implemented research projects in the areas of healthy living, smoking cessation and diabetes, including the provision of subject matter expertise in the development of a healthy lifestyles program for K-2nd grade youth, managing participant data, and developing educational materials for research participants.

As an independent consultant I worked with start-up clients to develop and implement marketing, communications, and social media strategies targeted at local, national, and international audiences. This included co-producing an international broadcast featuring worldwide experts in the client’s market, and targeting my client’s unique niche to increase their social media fanbase on Facebook and Twitter, driving traffic to the company website resulting in increased membership and member engagement.

Novato, Ca, Us

As an AmeriCorps project coordinator and youth educator, I marketed an education program to and oversaw coordination of the program in 15 public schools, successfully reaching over 2,000 students through the development of new and strengthening of existing school partnerships. In addition, I designed and directed community volunteer events, recruiting, working with and supervising youth and adult volunteers.

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

At Active Interest Media, I managed press coverage for Backpacker's third annual Get Out More tour, a national mobile ad campaign sponsored by Woolrich, and achieved over four million media impressions. In addition, I served as Sales Associate and Office Assistant for Yoga Journal magazine, generating new business leads and building on existing client relationships to sell and provide customer service in developing ads for the annual yoga business directory.

I served as an administrator for a non-profit serving formerly homeless families and youth, providing direct support to the Executive Director and managing donor database development and reporting in Fundraiser, while also managing AmeriCorps volunteer benefits, time and leave.

Ashland, Wi, Us

I wrote and succeeded in obtaining a grant to conduct ethnographic research in a small village in Northern Thailand, coalescing findings with secondary qualitative research from published literature into an ethnography exploring the motivations of non-natives coming to Thailand and their affect on the Thai culture.

Master Of Public Health (Mph)

Ma, Philosophy

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Sociology

Geographic Information Systems

Health Impact Assessment

Writing Effective Opeds