Kimberly Persson

Kimberly Persson, MSW, is a Project Director III and Principal Investigator at the Institute for Health Policy and Practice. She joined IHPP in 2006, through a collaborative research project with Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, exploring a link between arsenic exposure through well water and intellectual development in children.

Throughout her tenure at IHPP, Kim has supported work across all IHPP focal areas. Past projects have included the Project ECHO, Pediatric Improvement Partnership, the National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network, the Tobacco Free Campus Initiative, Million Hearts, START Information Reporting System, Citizens Health Initiative, Healthy UNH, New Hampshire Purchasers Group on Health, NH State Opioid Response, and the Children’s Behavioral Health Resource Center.

Kim's current work interests focus on the intersection of maternal and child health with substance use disorders, naloxone saturation within communities, affordability issues in the U.S. healthcare system, women’s health issues, and funding development.

Prior to joining IHPP, Kim spent several years working in the field of children’s behavioral health and juvenile diversion programming.