Nicole Rapfogel, MPH, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on access to affordable, comprehensive health coverage, including coverage for people with insulin-requiring diabetes, access to GLP-1s, and prior authorization.
Nicole has written extensively and provided expert analysis on a wide range of health policy issues related to access and affordability. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, she was a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where she focused on marketplace and private insurance. She previously served as a Social Science Research Analyst and Presidential Management Fellow at the Center for Medicare within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where she worked on payment policy for Medicare Parts C and D. Before that, she worked at the Center for American Progress, most recently as a senior health policy analyst, where she focused on drug pricing, health care costs and competition, insurance access and affordability, and other federal and state health policy issues.
Nicole holds a Master of Public Health from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Dartmouth College and a B.A. in Public Policy and Global Health from Duke University.