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Kathryn D. Thompson, a Class of 2023 Brown Ph.D. graduate, is an assistant professor at Boston University School of Public Health, holding dual appointments in community health sciences and health law, policy and management. Thompson’s research uses health services and population health methods to examine how macro- and micro-level health systems drive health inequities, particularly among pregnant and post-partum persons and Medicaid populations. She leverages economic frameworks to quantify how social, demographic and policy contexts shape health outcomes. At Brown, Thompson was president of the Graduate Student Council, launching a graduate student food insecurity initiative with University leaders. Additionally, she served on the executive board of the Samuel M. Nabrit Black Graduate Student Association, the University Graduate Council, the Brown University Community Council, and other institutional committees. She received Brown’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan Award and was a Brown Executive Scholar. Recently, she was named a National Poverty Scholar with the Institutes for Research on Poverty, and an Early Career Scholar with the HIV Prevention Trial Network Scholars Program.