Lauren Hall is a Research Analyst with the Food Assistance Division. Her work focuses on research and data analysis for federal food assistance programs, such as SNAP and WIC. Previously, she was a health policy analyst for Medicaid Provider Services at the Maryland Department of Health. She has also conducted research on healthy food purchasing to improve health outcomes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Lauren has a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science from University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Science in Public Health in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.