Christina Olson, MPH

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Get to know Christina:
Christina has been with PHIL since 2020.  Her work supports systems change efforts rooted in multisector collaboratives–particularly Accountable Communities of/for Health. She wears multiple hats that include stakeholder engagement, development and delivery of trainings, sense-making strategizing, data collection and analysis, graphic design, and administrative functions.  If you peeked into her office, you might find her developing plans and tools for better cross-sector engagement (particularly virtually), diving into Excel workbooks for fun, facilitating meetings, or testing out new technologies for the PHIL team. When not working, you’ll find Christina enjoying outdoor spaces, trying her best to grow vegetables and compost, crafting with her little ones, or trying local food establishments in her community.

Experience:
Christina has over ten years of experience in research and practice across multiple health-focused disciplines. From 2016-2020, she worked on-the-ground in development of a multisector, population health-focused collaborative where she managed policy development, day-to-day operations, funding creation and distribution, stakeholder engagement, and trust building across various community sectors and with residents. Prior to 2016, Christina worked in multiple research labs as both an assistant and a co-principal investigator on her own federally funded research. She also spent a period working in federal-level, international public health policy with the Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree with a double major in neuroscience and Spanish from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and her Master of Public Health degree from San Diego State University in San Diego, California.

Expertise:
Cross-sector collaboration development; Systems Change; Training & External Engagement

Languages:
English, Spanish