Center for Children and Families

Jocelyn Guyer

Co-Executive Director

Jocelyn Guyer is co-executive director at the Center for Children and Families (CCF) and a senior researcher at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. At CCF, she has worked extensively on child and family health issues, including reauthorization of CHIP and the role of Medicaid in covering children and families. She joined CCF from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, where she served most recently as an associate director. At the Commission, she led analysis of several emerging issues in health care for vulnerable Americans, including the implications of the Part D Medicare drug benefit for impoverished seniors and people with disabilities, and major proposals to restructure Medicaid.

In the past, she has served as a senior health policy analyst on health and welfare policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where she designed policy initiatives to expand coverage to low-income parents and worked with several states to implement family-based coverage expansions. She has also served as legislative research assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. She holds a Master of Public Affairs in economics and public policy from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Brown University.