Kevin Myers is a Director of Planning & Facilitation on the Strategic Planning & Organizational Effectiveness team at HRiA. Kevin has been at HRiA since 2015, serving as a Sr. Project Associate on the Policy & Practice team followed by Associate Director on the Community Health Grantmaking team. Recently, he has helped lead the strategic development of the MA Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds which distributed over $15M to disrupt and remove barriers to health (e.g., structural, and institutional racism, poverty, and deep power imbalances) through community-centered policy, systems, and environmental change approaches.
Prior to HRiA, Kevin worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in various areas including injury prevention, global health, coalition and operations improvement, and healthcare, among others. He also worked at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to promote mental health in the Commonwealth. Mr. Myers has experience conducting health assessments as well as planning, implementing, and evaluating public health programs. He earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from Lehigh University and a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.