Rachel Swindle

Rachel received her BA in Politics and Linguistics with honors from New York University. She has an MPP from Georgetown University, where she completed a graduate thesis examining the socioeconomic impacts of a state law targeting providers of reproductive health care services and served as a graduate teaching assistant for multiple quantitative research methods courses. Prior to joining the Harvard PhD program Rachel was a Research Fellow at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) at Georgetown. She has also worked as a researcher at the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Practice and Georgetown University’s Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (Gui2de), in addition to interning with the ACLU and Senate Finance Committee under ranking member Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR). Her research interests include private insurance markets and hospital billing practices, state-based marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act, and the political dynamics that shape the American healthcare system.

Email: rswindle@g.harvard.edu