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Kathleen Petty, MPH

Senior Vice President

Kathleen Petty, MPH

Kathleen has more than 13 years of experience in the communications field in which she excels at leading integrated campaigns in earned media and thought leadership and is adept at understanding what makes news and how to work with journalists to secure high-quality feature stories. She provides in-depth thinking and strategic counsel for all her clients and taps into her public health education to conduct formative research, including environmental scans and message testing, to bring ideas into action. She currently leads earned media and science promotion efforts on behalf of a federal agency, medical society and nonprofit. Kathleen was honored as a PR News Person of the Year in 2020 and named a finalist as Washington Women in PR Emerging Leaders in 2022. Kathleen earned her M.P.H. with a specialty in health behavior/health promotion from The Ohio State University and her B.A. from American University.