Alina Kraynak serves as a Clinical Quality Improvement Advisor at the Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative. She is dedicated to advancing equitable perinatal and quality care for families and future generations. Alina has a strong background in nursing and public health leadership, particularly in the areas of critical care, community health, substance use, and perinatal health. Her prior experience includes a role at the Minnesota Department of Health, where she supervised statewide Women’s Health programming, capacity building through diverse funding to embolden state programming. She also coordinated the state’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee.

Alina earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in Advanced Population Health, focusing on addressing barriers in care coordination for patients with substance use disorders in collaboration with Medicaid providers in Chicago, IL. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Ball State University.

Outside of her clinical and public health roles, Alina enjoys spending time outdoors with her dog, traveling, and volunteering.