Health Policy Center, independent research for better health policy: The Urban Institute

Rachel Burton is a Research Associate in the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center, where she studies strategies to improve the quality of health care.  Prior to coming to the Urban Institute in the Summer of 2010, Rachel was a Program Examiner in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for three years, where her portfolio included the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the expansion of Federal comparative effectiveness research activities, and health information privacy laws and regulations.  Prior to OMB, Rachel held a variety of health policy graduate internships, which allowed her to co-author a report to Congress while at the Congressional Research Service, to write articles while at the National Conference of State Legislatures, and to provide research assistance to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions and the Government Accountability Office.  Rachel holds an M.P.P. degree from Georgetown University in Health Policy and a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in English.