Katie Allen

• Assisted with 12-week program design, implementation, and evaluation, as well as provided staff and training for IRB approved study on “Feasibility of a Community-Based Yoga Intervention for Adolescents with Chronic Health Conditions” that yielded positive health outcomes.

• Co-founded a non-profit organization that provides a holistic model for community care that cultivates social support, utilizes the best evidence-based practices of natural health, and empowers the individual and collective to live well.

• Developed, implemented, and evaluated group yoga therapy offerings for UCI Care Members, UCI employees and UCI community.
• Developed, implemented, and managed one-on-one yoga therapy clinical services in two UCI Health Clinics.
• Implementation and evaluation of 6-week Yoga Therapy and Health Education programs for Stress Reduction and Restful Sleep.

• Developed, implemented, and evaluated yoga therapy programming for Live Healthy OC, a UCI Health | Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute outreach initiative to bring yoga therapy and health education services into FQHC’s such as Serve The People Clinic in Santa Ana, Families Together Clinic in Tustin, and Korean Community Services in Buena Park.

• Developed and implemented group and private health education and yoga therapy sessions in English and Spanish for under-served community members
• Developed a clinical internship site for yoga therapy interns to provide services in Hoag’s Community Mental Health Department.

• Developed and implemented an 825-hour International Association of Yoga Therapist (IAYT) accredited Yoga Therapist Training program that trains yoga therapists to work with clients with specific health conditions.

• Co-Founded Be The Change Yoga and Wellness Center in Irvine, CA. Offering the highest level of training in the County, as well as group yoga therapy and health education programs, private services and, workshops.

• Developed numerous projects for the St. Joseph Health System including international health research, internal employee evaluations, community outreach, focus groups, and improving community volunteerism.

• Designed and implemented a 6-week course in Spanish for low-income, postpartum Hispanic mothers focusing on diabetes prevention, nutrition improvement and stress management. Course included health education, as well as introduction to Yoga; which I led in Spanish.

• Common Ground Health Clinic: Latino Outreach Project. Translated for health care workers and led health education for migrant workers in post-Katrina New Orleans, LA.

• Foreign Language and Area Studies Program (FLAS). Spent 8-weeks in Guatemala studying the indigenous Mayan language Kaqchikel, culture, cosmology and health with an emphasis on holistic therapies.

• Assisted Dr. David Lindstrom in researching how migration patterns impacted birth control usage amongst indigenous Mayan women in Guatemala.

Successful completion of over 600 hours of Ayurveda studies including clinical internship and supervision. Ayurveda is the oldest medical systems in the world still in practice today and utilizes diet, herbs, and sleep hygiene as lifestyle medicine.

Completed over 1000 hours of yoga therapy training to learn how to skillfully apply movement, breath-work, meditation, and lifestyle practices for clients with specific health conditions including: musculoskeletal ailments, mental health imbalances, system imbalances, or conditions associated with age or stage of life.

I began my Public Health studies in the International Health Department focusing on mental health and medical anthropology. The intention was to work internationally and change the world based on my undergraduate studies. I shifted to the Community Health Sciences Department and decided to focus on Maternal and Child Health and completed my capstone project implementing a gestational diabetes prevention program for low-income, postpartum Hispanic mothers in Santa Ana, CA.

I attended Brown University during fall semester 2005 while Tulane was closed due to Hurricane Katrina. It was an invaluable experience to study public health and assist with research at Brown.

As part of a Tulane program, a group of public health students spent two weeks in Taiwan living on campus at Taichung University studying the Taiwanese healthcare system, specifically the integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine to improve population health outcomes.

Bachelor of Arts with a double major in International Studies and Spanish and a minor in Psychology.

Advanced Spanish language program, living in Spain for a semester. Studies included history, anthropology, and social sciences with classes facilitated in Spanish.