Kristen Honey BA, MA, PhD, PMP

Dr. Honey serves as Innovator in Residence for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Chief Technology Officer. In this role, she fosters public-private collaborations, like the HHS Office of the CTO open innovation X-accelerators, and champions open data, open science, crowdsourcing, citizen science, prizes, challenges, and innovative partnerships. Dr. Honey serves as a Federal member of the Tick Borne Disease Working Group because she is on assignment from Stanford University to the Federal government under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act. More information can be found here: Intergovernmental Personnel Act.
Prior to joining HHS, Dr. Honey served as a Senior Policy Analyst for the Federal Chief Information Officer in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Executive Office of the President. She also served as a Policy Advisor to the U.S. CTO in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Her OMB and OSTP portfolios included IT modernization, Open Data, My Data (e.g., Blue Button health data interoperability), the Data Cabinet (data science), and data-driven innovations―especially innovative public-private collaborations and citizen engagement. Dr. Honey advocates for data-driven, interdisciplinary solutions to help address complex health challenges like the opioid crisis, mental health, and complex infectious diseases including Lyme disease.
Hailing from Maine, Dr. Honey earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in the Environment and Resources, School of Earth Sciences, while simultaneously earning a Ph.D. minor in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. She holds an M.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a B.A. in Human Biology with Honors from Stanford University.