Rosie Glaser, MPH, CHESⓇ, has 5+ years of public health experience with a background in community health program planning, grant writing, project management, community facilitation, and qualitative data collection and analysis. As an Associate Consultant for The Steadman Group, Rosie contributes to the successful execution of high-quality deliverables across a variety of private-contracted behavioral health and healthcare projects.

Rosie has secured funding for behavioral health and healthcare initiatives at foundation, state, and federal levels. They served as a proposal writer and designer for a winning Regional Accountable Entity (RAE) bid, secured a $48,000 state grant from the Behavioral Health Administration to strengthen the peer support workforce, and wrote on a winning $3 million HRSA grant application to expand access to substance use treatment and workforce development in Western Colorado.

Beyond grant writing, Rosie co-facilitates a Regional Opioid Abatement Council, bringing together elected officials, public health professionals, and community members with lived experience to develop community-informed funding strategies. In this role, Rosie has helped lead a two-year strategic planning process, ensuring that opioid settlement funds are allocated in alignment with regional priorities.

Rosie’s expertise extends into project management, program development, and evaluation. Rosie collaborates with Steadman’s Healthcare team to develop the Colorado Behavioral Health Provider Solutions program, helping rural and frontier behavioral health practices enhance efforts to provide and receive reimbursement for values-based care. Rosie has also worked with Steadman’s Senior Consultants to develop a contingency management program, an innovative, evidence-based intervention that supports individuals in substance use recovery. Through Rosie’s evaluation work, they have also conducted community needs assessments and gap analyses with quantitative and qualitative components and led federal HRSA-RCORP grant data collection processes.

Rosie received their Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Colorado School of Public Health, where they specialized in Community Health Education, focusing on gender-exacerbated health disparities. Rosie is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHESⓇ) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Services from the University of Northern Colorado.