Samiyah Para-Cremer Moore, M.Sc.

Samiyah Para-Cremer Moore, M.Sc., Senior Analyst & Portfolio Strategist, specializes in population health research, including food security research, program evaluation, community engagement and the incorporation of health equity considerations into decision making.

At KHI, Samiyah supports community engagement efforts and leads research initiatives to strengthen the Kansas public health system at state and local levels. She also provides direct technical assistance to communities across Kansas to build their capacity for using data and evidence-based practices to support health and health equity. Samiyah’s research interests include food security, health equity, social determinants of health and evidence-based policy and practice.

Prior to joining KHI, Samiyah worked as a Justice Fellow at Kansas Appleseed, where she provided research, policy analysis and program development on issues such as childhood nutrition programs, housing and COVID-19 policy.

Samiyah earned a master’s degree in evidence-based social intervention and policy evaluation from the University of Oxford and bachelor’s degrees in applied behavioral science, law and society and also Spanish from the University of Kansas.