Amirahimaan Kalonji
Amirahimaan Kalonji is a Dartmouth College first-year student pursuing a BA in Neuroscience and English. She is particularly interested in the intersection of environmental health, maternal-child health, and personal well-being. She strives to apply this research to determine how early exposure plays a role in the trajectories of health across generations. Amirah hopes to apply this analysis to inform data-driven policy, fuel interventions, and develop understanding. Accordingly, she hopes to utilize this in reducing health differences as well as improving the health status of families in ethnically diverse groups as a scientist and physician.
Kalonji is collaborating with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on the NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) study in SUMR 2025. This large, observational trial—enrolling pregnant women and children from racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically mixed populations—seeks to understand how things early in life before birth influence five broad areas of child health: pregnancy and childbirth, respiratory disease, weight, brain development, and overall health. During her time as a SUMR scholar, Kalonji is assisting study coordinators with participant recruitment and major research activities and ensuring that site data collection was intact and feasible. She will be under the mentorship of Heather Burris, Tim Nelin, and Kisha Gaskins.
Kalonji’s interests lie in environmental health, societal well-being, and scientific discovery. She enjoys reading fiction novels for fun, writing poetry, and spending time outside in nature.