Research Analyst, Health Policy Project

Expertise

Children’s health coverage; health tax incentives; employer-sponsored insurance; Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); health data on Latino and medically underserved communities

Education

Master’s degree, public policy, The George Washington University; bachelor’s degree, political science, Wheaton College

Background

Current Position: Research and analysis on federal health policies that improve Latinos’ access to quality, affordable health coverage and care

Previous Position(s): Research Analyst, The Campaign Finance Institute; Senior Paralegal, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Selected Publications

Profiles of Latino Health: The Top 12 Questions About Latinos and Health Care (April–June 2009)

Health Tax Incentives: Healthy Choices or Bad Medicine? (January 2009)

A Burden No Child Should Bear: How the Health Coverage System Is Failing Latino Children (July 2008)