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Allie Gardner Dunakey is the Research Associate at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families (CCF). She has a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University. Her master’s thesis, entitled “The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Access to Care for Children in the South,” focused on the intersection of her interests in access to care and health care in rural communities. Allie earned a BS in Economics from the University of Alabama specializing in Public Policy and Law.

Before joining Center for Children and Families, she worked on domestic health policy at a state children’s hospital as well as foreign policy issues while serving in the public sector.

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