Kamaria Kaalund is a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Health Policy and Management program. Before beginning graduate studies, Kamaria worked as a Policy Analyst for Health Equity at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. In this role, Kamaria supported health equity research projects, policy analysis, and educational initiatives. Her research interests include community-focused health policy approaches to reduce health inequities and the intersections between neuroscience, environmental health, and policy. Her current research focuses on developing policy solutions to address the structural determinants of health and to assess and scale community-based care delivery models, in addition to thinking about alternative payment models and quality of care through an equity lens. She is a 2020 graduate of Wellesley College where she earned a B.A. in Neuroscience, with a minor in Anthropology.