Rachel Upton PhD, MA

Rachel Upton is a Statistician on the Health Care Transformation team—her latest role after nearly a decade of federal service, where she held a variety of statistician roles at the Census Bureau, as well as Health Resources and Services Administration and the Administration for Community Living within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Rachel also is an author and co-author for multiple peer reviewed manuscripts, with publications in journals such as the Psychology of Women Quarterly, Child Development, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. During her federal service, she conducted studies on a variety of topics and data, including Medicare enrollment data and the development of annual, model-based Congressional budgetary estimates for Title III services under the Older Americans Act. Rachel holds a PhD and MA in Quantitative Psychology from UNC and a BS in mathematics from the University of Tennessee, and is proficient in SAS, Mplus, Tableau, R, Stata, and PowerBI. At Duke-Margolis, she is working on topics related to Medicare and Medicaid health care transformation.