Jennifer Jenson, Policy Fellow

Jennifer Jenson is a policy fellow on NASHP’s Emerging Policy Issues team, where her work addresses varied topics and policy innovations, including health care payment and delivery system reform, cost containment, and emerging practices that cross traditional policy and program boundaries. Prior to joining NASHP in 2016, she was a principal policy analyst at the National Health Policy Forum, where she focused on population health.
Over two decades in Washington, Jenn has worked on a wide range of health policy issues in congressional and executive branch agencies and nonprofit organizations. She spent much of her career as a nonpartisan advisor to the U.S. Congress, including analytic and management roles at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), and Congressional Research Service (CRS). In these roles, her work emphasized budget analysis, payment policy, and healthcare costs. She has worked on Medicaid at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and evidence-based prevention policy at Partnership for Prevention. Because of her expertise in both budget policy and prevention issues, she was appointed to serve on a consensus committee for the Institute of Medicine that developed a framework for evaluating community-based prevention policies and wellness strategies. Jennifer holds master’s degrees in public health and public policy from the University of Michigan, and undergraduate degrees in political science and public health from the University of California at San Diego.