Kim VanPelt is the Director of State Health Policy and Advocacy at SLHI. Her work focuses on achieving SLHI’s policy goals at a state or federal level. Kim’s responsibilities include convening and engaging the community to identify or advance public policy goals, analyzing and educating the community on state and federal health policy issues, writing or overseeing policy-related research or publications, managing grants or contracts aimed at achieving SLHI’s policy objectives, overseeing efforts aimed at strengthening the analytic infrastructure for policy analysis in the state, and supporting and strengthening advocacy capacity by community partners.