Kathleen C. “Casey”, Milne is a principal and founder of Milne & Associates, LLC, a national consulting firm based in Portland, OR, that specializes in public health systems development and improvement, and in public health preparedness. The mission of the firm is to provide effective and meaningful contributions to improving organizational systems, capacity, and efficacy through insightful work, out-of-the-box thinking, and application of high performance experience. Casey has worked on a number of projects aimed at improving public health practice, public health preparedness and bioterrorism, and has facilitated assessments of local and state health departments using the National Public Health Performance Standards Program tool. Projects have included work with Nuclear Threat Initiative, Association of Public Health Laboratories, Centers for Disease and Control, ANSER, Department of Health and Human Services, Denver Health, Oregon Department of Human Services – State Public Health and others.  Additionally, she has participated as guest lecturer and faculty for public health leadership institutes. The firm works with national, state, and local public health agencies and associations, private not-for-profit organizations, academic institutions, and foundations.

Prior to Milne & Associates, LLC, Casey was Director of Quality Improvement at RAND and George Washington University School of Public Health’s Center to Improve Care of the Dying. She has served as faculty for a number of collaboratives with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement and was a frequent lecturer for Georgetown University, and George Washington University. 

In 1985, Casey founded one of the nation’s first comprehensive care/case management firms where she served as President/CEO for 15 years. In 1992, Project Connect, a population based care management program was developed for Southwest Washington’s Healthy Options, a Medicaid managed care program.  The program received Best Practice acknowledgement from HCFA in 1994. While at Multnomah County Health Department prior to 1985, Casey held a number of management positions and was active in state and national public health boards including the Conference of Local Health Officials, Oregon Public Health Nursing Directors, Oregon Public Health Association and the American Public Health Association.