Kelly Coates
Biography
Kelly received her PhD in 2021 in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health after successfully defending her dissertation, titled “Affecting Absenteeism Through School-Based Health Services Delivery: A Configurational Comparative Methods Study of Oregon’s Public Secondary Schools.” In addition to the ways her work supports the intersectionality of health and education, this research was the first to use coincidence analysis (CNA) as the primary research method in a doctoral dissertation. She is a continued active member in the All Things Configured Community of Practice for CNA. Beyond her work as Affiliate Faculty, Kelly is employed by CareOregon, as an Evaluation Analyst. As a volunteer, she is a member of Oregon’s School Medicaid Advisory Committee, the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for the Oregon School-Based Health Alliance, a member of the Board of Directors for the North Clackamas Education Foundation, and the Chair of the Research Committee for the Women’s Foundation of Oregon. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the AcademyHealth Child Health Services Research Interest Group, where she started a Child Health Services Research Community of Practice that supports an informal learning and networking space for child health services researchers from around the country.
Education, Degrees
Bachelor of Science in Combined Sciences from Santa Clara University
Master of Public Health in Health Education & Health Promotion from Portland State University
Doctorate of Philosophy in Health Systems & Policy from OHSU-PSU School of Public Health
¹ CEPH Primary Instructional Faculty
² CEPH Non-Primary Instructional Faculty
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