BluePath Health
Frances (Franny) Kiles has a Master of Public Health (MPH) from UCLA, is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES), and is a person living with cystic fibrosis. Franny lives in the San Francisco/Bay Area and was diagnosed with CF at 2 months. She feels incredibly grateful and privileged to have access to quality healthcare and clean air to breathe, but this is not the case for everyone with CF. Her experience living with CF and witnessing the persistent health disparities in CF care and outcomes drove her to get an MPH degree and pursue a career working to improve health equity. Franny is currently a Senior Associate at BluePath Health where she supports health data exchange initiatives and community health programs to address social determinants of health.
Franny is an active member of the CF community and has participated in a number of CF-related projects and programs throughout the years. While she was a Biology student at Tufts, she received an Elizabeth Nash Foundation Research Award to conduct CF research at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute where she tested the efficacy of CFTR modulators on ultra-rare CF mutations. She also worked with Massachusetts General Hospital CF providers to create web content and information sheets to make CF research more accessible to the public. For the past two years, Franny has been a peer mentor in the CF Foundation peer mentorship program and thoroughly enjoys this opportunity to meet and connect with a variety of people living with CF and loved ones of people with CF.
In her free time, Franny has always had a passion for singing and songwriting. She has been taking voice lessons in the Breathe Bravely sINgSPIRE program since 2020, which is a voice lesson program for people with CF that helps combat CF through the art of singing. As of this year, she is now a vocal instructor at Breathe Bravely as well and gives voice lessons to fellow people with CF in the program.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
7:45 AM - 9:45 AM PDT