Holen Hirsh
she/her
HALL-in Hursh
As Head of Innovation, Dr. Holen Hirsh leads Omni’s efforts to reimagine research and evaluation through new tools, technologies, and strategies that make data more actionable and drive lasting community impact.
PhD, Social Psychology
MA, Social Psychology
BA, Psychology
About
As Omni Institute’s first Head of Innovation, Dr. Holen Hirsh leads the organization’s efforts to build new tools, expand services, and explore forward-thinking pathways that help clients and communities drive lasting social change. Her work focuses on reimagining how social science can evolve, while maintaining rigor and deep respect for communities and their resources.
Throughout her tenure at Omni, including as Vice President of Research, Holen has shaped Omni’s approach to evidence-based learning, organizational strategy, and community-centered evaluation. She brings a rare combination of deep expertise and drive to think bigger, grounding work in her research training and more than a decade of applied experience as a member of Omni’s research and evaluation team.
Under Holen’s leadership, Omni’s innovation program is reimagining how research and evaluation can take a step forward to meet the moment. By testing new technologies and delivery models, she is building pathways that make data more actionable, strategies more adaptable, and change more scalable across communities.
- Summit County Preschool, Board Member (2021 - 2022)
- NAATP Foundation forRecovery Science and Education, Board Consultant (2020-2022)
- Colorado Providers Association, Board Member (2020-Present)
- Colorado Collaboratory on Equitable Evaluation (2.0), Denver, CO (2019- 2020)
- Family Star Montessori School, Health Services Advisory Council Member (2019-2020)
- Omni Institute Service Award for exceptional contributions across the areas of work performance, client recognition, and internal contributions (2016)
- Colorado Immersion Training in Community Engagement and Community Based Participatory Research,Urban African American Track, Colorado Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Denver, CO (2011)
- Summer Fellowship for Outstanding Graduate Students, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder (2011)
- NIH Conference onthe Science of Research on Discrimination and Health, Bethesda, MD (2011)
- National CancerInstitute, Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Conducting Research onRacial/Ethnic Discrimination in Health Care Delivery, Technical Workshop, Bethesda, MD (2008)
- Hirsh, H.K., Wheeler, N., Gelman, K., Swan, J. (2019). NAATP Addiction Treatment Outcomes Measurement Toolkit & Final Report. Submitted to the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, Denver, Colorado. Access: https://www.naatp.org/sites/naatp.org/files/NAATP_Newsletter_Outcomes_FINAL.pdf
- Hirsh, H.K., Richmond, M.K., Pampel, F.C., Jones, S.S., Molieri, A.C., & Jones, J. (2018). Results from a randomized controlled trial of the Motheread/Fatheread early literacy intervention: Evidence of impact in a rural community. Early Education and Development. doi: 10.1080/10409289.2018.1544813.
- Hahn, A., Judd, C.M., Hirsh, H.K.,& Blair, I.V. (2014). Awareness of implicit attitudes. Journal ofExperimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 1369–1392.
- Auxier, A.M., Hirsh, H.K., &Warman, M.K. (2013) Behavioral Health in Federally Qualified Health Centers: What Practitioners and Researchers Need to Know. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 44, 391–397.
- Blair, I.V., Steiner, J.F., Fairclough, D., Hanratty, R., Price, D.W., Hirsh, H.K., Wright, L.A., Bronsert, M., Karimkhani, E., Magid, J.A., Havranek, E.P. (2013). Providers’ Implicit Ethnic/Racial Biases Predict Patient Evaluations by African American but not Latino Patients. Annals of Family Medicine, 11(1), 2–4
- Blair, I.V., Havranek, E.P., Price, D.W., Hanratty, R., Fairclough, D., Farley, T., Hirsh, H.K., Steiner, J.F. (2013). An assessment of biases against Latinos and African Americans among primary care providers and community members. American Journal of Public Health, 103(1), 92–98.
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