Kavelle Christie, a Jamaican-born well being coverage strategist and healthcare reform advocate, has been named a 2025 inductee of Marquis Who’s Who, a prestigious biographical registry that has chronicled the lives and achievements of achieved leaders throughout disciplines for over 125 years.
Her inclusion locations her amongst an elite group of honorees that features Nobel Prize winners, U.S. Presidents, and pioneers in drugs, enterprise, and the humanities.
Christie is the Founder and CEO of Orion 360 Well being, LLC, a U.S.-based well being coverage and technique agency specializing in healthcare financing reform, reproductive well being fairness, and public narrative technique. Her agency advises governments, organizations, and advocacy networks on navigating advanced healthcare programs, increasing Medicaid entry, and translating coverage into follow—significantly for underserved populations.
She is well known for co-leading Rhode Island’s landmark non-public insurance coverage and Medicaid doula reimbursement mandate, the primary of its sort in the US. The groundbreaking laws has reworked maternal well being coverage and positioned Rhode Island as a nationwide mannequin for beginning fairness. Christie’s coverage experience spans a variety of areas, together with Medicaid, prescription drug pricing reform, regulatory oversight, and rural healthcare entry.
“As a Jamaican lady navigating U.S. well being programs and energy constructions, I carry with me the cultural readability, willpower, and world lens that my household and this nation gave me,” Christie stated. “This recognition isn’t just about me: it’s in regards to the many individuals, together with these from small communities like mine, whose brilliance and life experiences deserve to assist form the programs that have an effect on us all.”
Her management has helped form laws in a number of U.S. states—significantly within the South—addressing maternal mortality, reproductive care deserts, and hospital closures. Christie has additionally performed a vital function in influencing federal reproductive and maternal well being coverage via her work with nationwide coalitions and direct engagement with members of Congress, making certain that the voices of impacted communities are included in nationwide policymaking.
By means of Orion 360 Well being, Christie additionally supplies govt teaching, strategic consulting, and communications assist to mission-driven leaders, corporations, and campaigns. Her insights have been featured in worldwide retailers similar to Forbes, MSN, BBC, Nasdaq, and the Polish Press Company, additional cementing her fame as a number one Caribbean voice in world well being coverage.
Her accolades embrace being named one in all Enterprise Insider’s 30 Leaders Beneath 40 Altering Healthcare (2023), one in all Becker’s Healthcare’s Black Healthcare Leaders to Know (2024), and a 2025 Lady to Watch by Black Leaders Worldwide. She was additionally named one in all Ladies We Admire’s High Ladies Leaders of 2025 and was nominated for the Well being Advocate Award by Caribbean POSH journal’s ICON Lady Awards.
Kavelle Christie earned a Grasp of Science in World Well being from the College of Manchester, a member of the UK’s elite Russell Group and ranked among the many high 40 universities globally.
Earlier than transitioning to well being coverage, Christie constructed a profitable profession in Jamaica as a journalist and publicist, advising high-profile people and main nationwide media technique. Her skilled journey has made her some of the revered Caribbean-born figures shaping healthcare reform within the U.S. as we speak. Her induction into Marquis Who’s Who affirms her exceptional contributions to well being coverage and advocacy on the world stage.
