Madeline O’Brien

Madeline O’Brien, M.P.A., is a research fellow at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) in Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute. Her research focuses on monitoring state legislative and regulatory activity related to private insurers and ACA implementation. Before joining CHIR, O’Brien did her graduate internship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s PolicyLab, conducting research on health care coverage, access, and quality. Prior to graduate school, she was a project specialist at the AARP Public Policy Institute, where she focused on nursing policy and workforce development within the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, a joint initiative with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. O’Brien earned her M.P.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government.