Abigail Knapp is a Research Fellow at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. At CHIR, her research focuses on health insurance access, affordability, and health care cost containment.
Before joining CHIR, Abby worked at Children’s National Hospital as an intern on the Community Mental Health CORE team. At Children’s National, she analyzed federal, state, and District policies related to behavioral health parity and network adequacy, and tracked ongoing legislative and regulatory developments impacting pediatric and perinatal mental health. Abby also completed internships with the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Reservoir Communications Group, and the Dearborn Department of Public Health. During her time at George Washington University, she was also a Field Interviewer for the CDC National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) study.
Abby received a B.S. in Public Health Sciences from the University of Michigan and a Master of Public Health in Health Policy from the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.