Katie O'Connor Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

Denver, Colorado, United States

Public Health Inspections (PHI), a division of Denver’s Department of Environmental Health, works to minimize the risk of communicable and infectious diseases and ensure public health and safety. PHI does this by conducting inspections, investigations, providing technical assistance, education and enforcement in facilities regulated by city ordinance.

Greater Denver Area

• Developed and administered 40+ health promotion initiatives and programs, including both employee programs and community facing programs, focused on food security, mental health promotion and stigma reduction.
• Championed health initiatives within the organization and externally with community groups, patients and families on topics including healthy eating/active living (HEAL) and increased access to healthy food.
• Led strategic wellness planning to support human resources and company-wide strategic goals across 18 locations.
• Coordinated and executed creation of the 3,000 sq. ft Healthy Roots Garden & micro-farm, building a space that’s actively utilized by thousands of guests for education, therapies, quiet reprieve, events and food.
• Spearheaded creation of the first food clinic within a Colorado hospital as an innovative solution to deliver wraparound services to food insecure patients and families; to date, the clinic has distributed over 100,000.
• Served as a content expert on Executive Leadership committees to support total worker health and holistic wellbeing.

• Led multi-disciplinary program and 12 committees focused on creating a healthy environment to benefit patients, visitors, team members and the community.
• Collaborated with various departments and community partners to implement and manage initiatives supporting nutrition, physical activity, resiliency, emotional and mental well-being, food security and sustainability.
• Managed all program activities for 9 separate programs including pilot projects, education campaigns, survey research and data analysis. − Supported Colorado Healthy Hospital Compact to become 1st in the state to reach.
• Supported policy development and implementation around Wellness and Healthy Hospital functions, defined and maintained internal processes, and provided technical expertise on programs and best practices.
• Oversaw and managed communications to the organization on Wellness and Healthy Hospital projects.
• Spearheaded successful efforts to eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages for the hospital system, which required extensive buy-in from leadership; resulted in a Public Health Hero Award from commitment Public Health for.

Denver, CO

• Developed orientation and training materials for new staff and supervised new hire training; managed initial and on-going training of administrative staff.
• Led administrative coordination of departmental operations and processes, project management, data management and calendar management for direct supervisors, departmental physicians and staff.
• Liaison to external vendors, equipment representatives, clinical trainers and external departments.
• Managed quality and process improvement audits; tracked outcomes and wrote annual reports.
• Provided support for departmental financial processes involving supply/inventory and equipment management, departmental budget support and expense report management.

-Conducted assessments of food and beverage environment at Children’s hospital using tool developed by CDC-Analyzes nutritional content of all pre-packaged food and snack items sold in hospital cafeteria and vending; labels all food items in accordance with Stop Light messaging (“go”-green/”slow”-yellow/”whoa”-red) to encourage healthier, balanced.

-Oversaw daily duties to manage 160-bed shelter -Facilitated on-site crisis management-Collaborated with external community organizations; police department, detox/hospital staff, -Enforced shelter policies and procedures while maintaining a safe environment -Supervised and managed volunteers-Offered support and counseling to residents

Seasonal Position-Worked as a member of a search and rescue team for homeless on the streets-Provided essential necessities to at-risk individuals -Collaborated with various community organizations to provide care to those in need-Supervised and trained new volunteers

Master Of Public Health, Community And Behavioral Health

Master'S Of Public Health, Community And Behavioral Health

Bs, Health Care Management

Activities and Societies: Upsilon Phi Delta Honor Society

Masters Public Health, Community & Behavioral Health

Bachelor'S, Healthcare Managment