Kate provides end‑to‑end oversight of complex projects, with expertise in budget management, schedule control, subcontractor coordination, risk management, and client engagement. She has a proven track record of directing high‑visibility initiatives that integrate research, data analytics, policy support, training, and technical assistance (TA) to advance national health priorities.

Currently, Kate serves as project manager for two projects for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She manages a technical assistance contract focused on improving care for Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries with complex needs. This has included establishing a TA center to help states enhance crisis services, developing guidance and providing TA to support state implementation and operations to modify the inmate payment exclusion, and providing TA to enhance behavioral health access. She also manages NORC’s work to support CMS’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program.

Additionally, Kate is the project director for NORC’s work to support the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the development and implementation of Healthy People, leading research to inform the initiative. She also has experience developing training and providing technical assistance for a variety of public health practitioners.