Mariko Toyoji, MPH is an epidemiologist at Public Health Seattle and King County’s Assessment, Policy Development and Evaluation Unit. She currently serves as the primary epidemiologist for the Communities Count program, providing social and health indicators, data and evaluation trainings, technical assistance and data tools to build community capacity to use data in furthering equity work in King County, WA. She has ten years of experience working in community health promotion, health disparities research, community engaged research and refugee and immigrant health. She is the recipient of the 2020 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Award for Outstanding Epidemiology Practice in Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. She holds a Masters of Public Health in Health Services from the University of Washington.