We’re delighted to welcome two new school members: Amy Killelea and Zeynep Çelik.
Amy Killelea, J.D. is an Assistant Analysis Professor at CHIR. Their analysis focuses on entry to inexpensive, complete well being protection for folks with insulin-requiring diabetes, preventive companies and vaccine protection coverage, and prior authorization.
Amy has intensive expertise in public well being legislation and coverage. Amy started their profession offering authorized companies to folks residing with HIV who confronted entry challenges to healthcare, together with discrimination, affordability, and stigma. Since then, Amy has labored with federal, state, and native governments and community-based organizations to determine and implement systemic options to public well being and well being care entry challenges, together with insurance coverage protection laws, 340B insurance policies, and different drug pricing reforms to enhance entry to HIV and hepatitis drugs. Amy acquired their B.A. from Smith Faculty and J.D. from Georgetown College Regulation Heart.
Zeynep Çelik is a Analysis Fellow on the Heart on Well being Insurance coverage Reforms (CHIR) at Georgetown College’s McCourt Faculty of Public Coverage. At CHIR, her analysis focuses on entry and affordability in diabetes care and medical debt protections.
Previous to becoming a member of CHIR, Zeynep labored as a advisor at KPMG, supporting the Heart for Shopper Info and Insurance coverage Oversight (CCIIO) with information analytics associated to shock billing monitoring and issuer exercise in state and federal insurance coverage markets.
Zeynep acquired a Grasp of Worldwide Growth Coverage from Georgetown College’s McCourt Faculty of Public Coverage. She has additionally earned a B.A. in Economics and Arithmetic from Georgetown College.