CHIR Welcomes New College | CHIRblog

We’re delighted to welcome two new college members: Madison Harden and Abigail Knapp

Madison Harden, J.D.

Madison Harden, J.D., is becoming a member of CHIR as an Assistant Analysis Professor and can concentrate on affordability and protection for behavioral well being providers together with state stage insurance policies regulating non-public medical health insurance.

Previous to becoming a member of CHIR, Madison labored on state-level well being coverage in Maryland, specializing in stability billing, community adequacy, and different behavioral well being care accessibility laws. She supported these efforts throughout her internship on the Authorized Motion Heart and as a pupil legal professional with the College of Maryland’s Public Well being Regulation Clinic. Madison additionally accomplished internships with Authorized Companies of Northern Virginia and Incapacity Rights Maryland. She at present volunteers because the Program Director of The Purple Tutu VA, a non-profit program which offers free ballet lessons for kids with Down syndrome. 

Madison earned her B.A. in English Literature from New York College and her J.D. from the College of Maryland Faculty of Regulation. 

Abigail Knapp, M.P.H.

Abigail Knapp is becoming a member of CHIR as a Analysis Fellow. Her analysis will concentrate on medical health insurance entry, affordability, and well being care price containment. 

Earlier than becoming a member of CHIR, Abigail labored at Kids’s Nationwide Hospital as an intern on the Group Psychological Well being CORE group. At Kids’s Nationwide, she analyzed federal, state, and District insurance policies associated to behavioral well being parity and community adequacy, and tracked ongoing legislative and regulatory developments impacting pediatric and perinatal psychological well being. She additionally accomplished internships with the Workplace of Nationwide Drug Management Coverage, Reservoir Communications Group, and the Dearborn Division of Public Well being. Throughout her time at George Washington College, she was additionally a Discipline Interviewer for the CDC Nationwide HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) examine.

Abigail acquired a B.S. in Public Well being Sciences from the College of Michigan, and a Grasp of Public Well being in Well being Coverage from the George Washington College Milken Institute Faculty of Public Well being.