Kamaria Kaalund is a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. 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.

Prior to beginning her studies at Hopkins, Kamaria worked as a Policy Analyst at the Duke-Margolis Insitute for Health Policy (formerly Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy). At Duke-Margolis, Kamaria led research on equity gaps in the COVID-19 pandemic response, policy options to address health equity in payment reform, and the use of disadvantage indices in policy decision-making. Kamaria currently serves on the Board of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network. She is a 2020 graduate of Wellesley College where she earned a B.A. in Neuroscience, with a minor in Anthropology.