Katie leads strategy related to CPCQC’s role in clinical and quality improvement programming across the state. This involves overseeing CPCQC’s clinical QI programs, including the SOAR, CO AIM:SUD, and MOMs+ programs, leading technology and data initiatives to support hospital engagement with CPCQC, and ensuring CPCQC programs complement statewide needs, priorities, health policy, and value-based payment initiatives. 

Prior to joining CPCQC, Katie’s career focused on maternal mortality prevention, clinical quality improvement, and reproductive health access, including work with Dr. Neel Shah on the Delivery Decisions Initiative and TeamBirth program at Ariadne Labs, and on the evaluation of Texas’ implementation of the AIM obstetric hemorrhage bundle. For six years, she also hosted a biweekly podcast focused on intersectional feminism and reproductive health, rights, and justice.

Katie Breen earned her Master of Public Health from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a concentration in Maternal-Child Health. She completed a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she earned the honors of Top Graduate in Marketing and delivered the commencement address of the Robert H. Smith School of Business. She has received training and certifications in healthcare quality improvement, electronic medical record interoperability, health literacy, economic evaluation, and reproductive justice.

Katie currently serves on the Executive Committee of the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives, and as the Director of Communications and Technology for March for Moms, a nationally-focused maternal health nonprofit. She served on the Colorado Maternal Mortality Review Committee in 2022-2023.

Katie enjoys spending time with her dog and husband, traveling, reading, and advocating for the right of all people to determine if, when, and how to build their families.