Katherine Luella Copp, MPH

Professional Experience

University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 2021-Present

PhD Candidate, Epidemiology

•  Led multiple multi-year interdisciplinary projects analyzing large nationally representative datasets

•  Performed biostatistical analyses and interpreted the results through data storytelling

•  Developed audience-specific materials to clearly communicate complex scientific findings

•   Co-led scholar cohort for professional development and journal club as part of NIH T32 program

•   Managed interdisciplinary teams with multiple competing timelines

Outlier, OpenAI, 2025-Present

Public Health Specialist, AI Model Trainer

•  Design and curate prompts to train AI models on emerging and innovative public health topics

Boston Children’s Hospital, 2015-2021

Quality Improvement Consultant, 2021

Quality Improvement Data Analyst, 2019-2021

•  Collected, analyzed, and interpreted statistics to organize innovative quality improvement systems

•  Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to design & implement process improvement initiatives

•  Engaged stakeholders to formulate and evaluate hypotheses, adjusting for risk management

•  Provided performance monitoring of simulation-based safety training for 200+ inpatient nurses

•  Collaborated with senior leadership & physicians to grow programmatic goals for cultural change

•  Systems-based thinking for stakeholder alignment in pursuit of data-driven operational excellence

Program Coordinator, 2016-2019

•  Built partnerships and problem-solved to facilitate the complete patient experience

•  Collaboration across roles and disciplines for program evaluation and continuous improvement

•  Program development and implementation of daily healthcare operations for two outpatient clinics

•  Interpreted data to management using quality metrics and dashboards of performance indicators

Patient Experience Representative, 2015-2016

•  Effectively communicated with patients through administrative strategies & information systems

Educational Activities

Co-led and organized Journal Club for scholar cohort, 

University of Minnesota School of Public Health, NIH Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology & Prevention T32, 2025

Guest Lecturer on Food Systems and Sustainable Eating, PUBH 6933: Public Health Nutrition for Adults, 

University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 2025

Co-led and developed Professional Development series for scholar cohort, 

University of Minnesota School of Public Health, NIH Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology & Prevention T32, 2024

Graduate Scholar in Ecosystem and Planetary Health cohort, 

University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment, 2023-24

Graduate Scholar in Agriculture and Climate cohort, 

University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment, 2022-23

Teaching Assistant and Laboratory Lead, PUBH 6341: Epidemiologic Methods I, 

University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 2022

Co-led and developed Professional Development series for scholar cohort, 

University of Minnesota School of Public Health, NIH Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology & Prevention T32, 2022

Piloted Health Services Research Academy for Children’s Hospital Association, 2020

Publications

Ngo T, Baird J, Mauskar S, Haskell H, Habibi A, Landrigan C, Copp K, …Khan A. (accepted). Applying Equity, Communication, Health Literacy & Organizational Theory to Hospital Interventions. Pediatrics.

Copp K, Steffen L, Yi S, et al. (2024). Magnesium-rich Diet Score is Inversely Associated with Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The Atherosclerosis in Communities (ARIC) Study. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 

Khan A, Baird J, Mauskar S, Haskell HW, Habibi AN, Ngo T, Aldarondo A, Berry J, Copp K, ...Landrigan CP. (2024) A Coproduced Family Reporting Intervention to Improve Safety Surveillance and Reduce Disparities. Pediatrics. 

Mauskar S, Ngo T, Haskell H, Mallick N, Mercer A, Baird J, Bardsley K, Berry J, Copp K, …Khan A. (2023).  In Their Own Words: Safety and Quality Perspectives from Families of Hospitalized Children with Medical Complexity. Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Mercer AN, Mauskar S,  Baird J, Berry J, Chieco D, Copp K, … Landrigan C, Khan A.(2022).  Family Safety Reporting in Hospitalized Children with Medical Complexity. Pediatrics. 

*Selected as a Top 10 Article in Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2022-2023 at the PHM Annual Conference

Shannon MT, Taylor M, Copp K, Smith-Millman M, Rogers JE. (2022). Developing a Responsive Transferable Model for Delivering Large-Scale Simulation Education to Inpatient Nursing Staff. Journal for Nurses in Professional Development. 

McCarthy S, Currier D, Copp K, & Donovan K. (2021). Partnering with Families of Medically Complex Children Transitioning from the Hospital to Home. Pediatrics. 

Posters + Presentations

Salty About Food: Using Diet as a Step for Climate Change, Oral Presentation, UMN Institute on the Environment Sustainability Symposium, April 2025

Planetary Health Diet Score is Inversely Associated with Sodium Intake in NHANES, Pre-Pandemic (2017-2020), Poster, American Heart Association Epi/Lifestyle Scientific Session, March 2025

*Also presented at UMN School of Public Health Research Day, April 2025

Consumption of Added Sugar and Added Sugar-Rich Foods and Beverages is Associated with Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, Poster, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Trainee Session at American Heart Association Epi/Lifestyle Scientific Session, March 2024

Magnesium-rich Diet Score Is Inversely Associated With Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The Atherosclerosis In Communities (ARIC) Study*, Poster, American Heart Association Epi/Lifestyle Scientific Session, March 2023

*Also an Oral Presentation in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Trainee Session on Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Prevention at the AHA Epi/Lifestyle Scientific Session

Recognize, React, Report: Advancing Patient Safety Through Nurse Led Collaboration, Poster, International Pediatric Simulation Society, October 2020

The CAITLYNN Project, Creating and Applying Individualized Transition plans: Learning Your New Normal, Poster, Spring 2020

Building and Supporting a Culture of Innovation-Based Practice (IBP) at Boston Children’s Hospital, Poster, Spring 2020

Recognize, React, Report: A Novel Nursing Simulation Program, Poster, Spring 2020

Child Residential Mobility and Healthcare Utilization, University of Vermont, Poster, Spring 2019

Providing Comprehensive Second Opinions to Children and Adolescents through the Pediatric Diagnostic Program, Poster, Boston Children’s, Spring 2019

Expanding Primary Care to International Patients and Their Families, Poster, Boston Children’s, Spring 2018

Providing Comprehensive Second Opinions to Children and Adolescents through the Pediatric Diagnostic Program, Poster, Boston Children’s, Spring 2018

Achievements + Awards

•  University of Vermont Public Health Curriculum Committee, 2025-present

•  Minnesota Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence Scholarship, 2025

•  NIH T32 Cardiovascular Disease Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2021-Present

•  Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Co-Founding Alumni@Boston Children’s at no incremental cost to the organization, 2018 cohort

•  Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Standardizing the Triage Process for Complex Second Opinion Patients, 2018 cohort

•  Sibylla Orth Young Scholarship, Boston Children’s Hospital,  2017 & 2018

Technical + Leadership Skills

•  Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified in Process Improvement

•  Quality, Continuous Improvement

•  Change Management

•  Study Design

•  Project Management

•  Program Development and Evaluation

•  Strategic Planning

•  Performance Monitoring

•  Training and Mentorship

•  Team Management

•  Curriculum Development

•  Grant Writing

•  R, SAS, Stata programming

•  REDCap survey design

Journal Peer Review

• Lancet Planetary Health, 2025

• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2024

• Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 2023

Professional Society Membership

•  Society for Epidemiologic Research, 2025-present

•  American Society of Nutrition, 2025-present

•  American Heart Association, 2021-present