Kayla Warner (she/her/hers) is the Community Organization, Research, and Engagement (CORE) Liaison with Oregon Health and Science University located on the North Oregon Coast in Astoria, Oregon. She aims to understand the intersection and interaction between physical and sociocultural environments affecting individual and population health while identifying ways to improve health equity. She collaborates with academic researchers, community organizations, and stakeholders to drive community collaboration, ensuring the community is an active part of the research process.

In her previous role, she worked with Oregon State University Extension teaching nutrition education and determining policy, system, and environmental change to tackle health disparities of underserved populations. She finds passion in identifying ways to use collective impact to reduce barriers and improve health impact across zip codes. Kayla has been involved in planning conferences and events to improve communication across sectors to address and improve health equity. She is passionate about collaborating with partners and stakeholders to drive impact and create solutions to improve community health through collective impact, programs and policies.

In 2014, an AmeriCorps program through Oregon Health Authority brought her to Oregon from Pennsylvania, kicking off her career in public health, and she has been working in public health since. Kayla has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and a Master’s in Public Health Practice from Oregon State University.