Brooke Shearon is a recent Master of Public Policy (MPP) graduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she holds a BA in economics and public policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This project serves as her capstone requirement for the MPP. Her research interests include health policy, public health risks, the social determinants of health, disparities in health, and health policy evaluation. In June 2023, Shearon joined the American Institutes for Research’s Health Division in the Health Learning, Translation and Quality Measurement Program Area as a research associate.