Kirsten Bryan, MS, PMP, AICP

Senior Consultant

Health Management Associates

Boston, MA

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Kirsten Bryan is an experienced project manager, urban planner and consultant with expertise supporting diverse, complex projects spanning social determinants of health (SDOHs), urban planning, housing, sustainability, and equity.

Before joining Health Management Associates, Kirsten worked in progressive project management roles with ForHealth Consulting at the University of Massachusetts’ Chan Medical School. As senior project and portfolio manager, Kirsten managed ForHealth’s behavioral health project portfolio and served as the lead project manager on the high-profile State of Massachusetts’s Behavioral Health Roadmap project. She supported internal and external teams, meeting critical deadlines for the Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHC) and the Behavioral Health Helpline (BHHL) go-live.

As a skilled project manager, urban planner, and facilitator, Kirsten has led projects related to process improvement, strategic and comprehensive planning, renovation, zoning, and economic development. She has extensive experience designing and implementing inclusive community outreach and engagement strategies with diverse communities.

Employing her technical skills to merge statistical and geographic data, Kirsten supports race and health equity initiatives by highlighting population trends, assets, and disparities. With Rhode Island’s Division of Planning, she produced complex geographic information system (GIS) maps for the state’s transportation equity benefit analysis, evaluating protected populations and their proximity to transportation infrastructure investments. Kirsten also led the socioeconomics of sea level rise project, identifying population clusters and projected impacts of various sea level rise scenarios and creating fact sheets for Rhode Island’s 21 coastal communities to support climate mitigation strategy and planning efforts.

Prior to her work in Rhode Island, Kirsten was the deputy director of city planning with the City of New Bedford, Massachusetts. In this role, she developed various GIS maps, supported placemaking, transit-oriented development (TOD), zoning and ordinance development and amendments.

Kirsten earned her master’s degree in urban sustainability science with a concentration in regional planning as well as her bachelor’s degree in writing, communication, and rhetoric from the University of Massachusetts.

She is a certified project management professional (PMP), a Lean Six Sigma green belt and a certified planner of the American Planning Association’s (APA) American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).