Kathleen Lane, MPH

Katie Lane is the Associate Director of Advocacy and Policy on the Government Affairs team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). In this role, her primary focus is on state and local jurisdictions including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. She is responsible for priority setting, policy analysis, legislation advancement, coalition building, and trade association engagement. 

Katie was hired in 2020 as the Reach Out and Read Policy Manager at CHOP, where she managed a three-year, statewide advocacy project funded by the William Penn Foundation. Prior to joining CHOP, she was a graduate student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health studying social and behavioral science. While working towards her degree, Katie was an intern in the Office of Government Relations at Boston Children's Hospital, a health equity summer fellow in the Community Health Improvement Department at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and a part-time associate with the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. 

Earlier in her career, she was a Senior Business Analyst at Truven Health Analytics in their Federal Health and Human Services Division in Washington, D.C., where she supported projects with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Obama administration.