We’re delighted to welcome two new college members to CHIR: Nicole Rapfogel and Jane Beyer.
Nicole Rapfogel, MPH, is a Senior Analysis Fellow on the Middle on Well being Insurance coverage Reforms (CHIR) at Georgetown College. Her analysis focuses on entry to inexpensive, complete well being protection, together with protection for folks with insulin-requiring diabetes, entry to GLP-1s, and prior authorization.
Nicole has written extensively and supplied professional evaluation on a variety of well being coverage points associated to entry and affordability. Previous to becoming a member of the Georgetown college, she was a senior coverage analyst on the Middle on Funds and Coverage Priorities, the place she targeted on market and personal insurance coverage. She beforehand served as a Social Science Analysis Analyst and Presidential Administration Fellow on the Middle for Medicare throughout the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Providers (CMS), the place she labored on cost coverage for Medicare Elements C and D. Earlier than that, she labored on the Middle for American Progress, most lately as a senior well being coverage analyst, the place she targeted on drug pricing, well being care prices and competitors, insurance coverage entry and affordability, and different federal and state well being coverage points.
Nicole holds a Grasp of Public Well being from the Dartmouth Institute for Well being Coverage and Scientific Apply at Dartmouth School and a B.A. in Public Coverage and World Well being from Duke
Jane Beyer is a Analysis Professor on the McCourt Faculty of Public Coverage’s Middle on Well being Insurance coverage Reforms. Her analysis at CHIR will give attention to well being care consolidation, financialization, and affordability.
Beforehand she served as Senior Well being Coverage Advisor to the Washington State Insurance coverage Commissioner from 2017 to 2026. She was authorized counsel to the Washington State Home of Representatives for twenty years, engaged on a broad vary of well being and human companies points. Jane served as Washington State’s Medicaid director from 1995 by 1998, and Washington State’s Behavioral Well being Commissioner from 2012 by 2015.
Jane started her profession as a authorized companies legal professional in Tacoma Washington, graduated with honors from the College of North Carolina Faculty of Legislation and is admitted to the Washington State and District of Columbia bar. She served as Chair of the Nationwide Academy for State Well being Coverage (NASHP) Government Committee from 2023 by 2026.