Julie Beaubian is the Community Benefit Specialist for Children's Hospital Colorado, coordinating community benefit activities for the hospital system including the Community Health Needs Assessment. She was born and raised in Long Beach, New York and moved to Colorado in 1976. She graduated from Colorado State University with B.S. in Social Work. She served as the Associate Director for Outreach and Administration for the CDC- funded Colorado Injury Control Research Center, addressing injury prevention and control.