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Aubrianna Osorio

is a Research Fellow at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families.

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Aubrianna Osorio is the Research Fellow at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF). Her current work focuses on tracking recent research and analyzing national and state-level data to understand trends in children’s health insurance coverage, health disparities, quality of care, and maternal and perinatal health. Her data work focuses primarily on the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, CMS Medicaid enrollment data, and the Child Core Set. Prior to this role, Aubrianna served as CCF’s Graduate Research Intern. She has an MPP from the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy and a BA in Sociology from Kenyon College.

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  • “Data Privacy” Concerns Could Mean Less Race and Ethnicity Data from the Census Bureau

    A few weeks ago, I wrote that new Commerce Department restrictions on the Census Bureau’s use of a group of data privacy methods called noise infusion could lead to less of the critical data, such as from the American Community Survey (ACS), that makes health policy research and analysis possible. But while the ban on…

  • Health Coverage Trends for Infants and Toddlers Under Age 3

    Key Findings Methodology Data Sources This brief from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) analyzes data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for 2015-2024. Because of differences in sample size and data processing, the estimates published here may differ from estimates produced using other…

  • Change to Census Data Processing Methods Threatens Health Policy Research and Federal Data Systems

    On June 4, 2026, the Commerce Department issued Department Administrative Order (DAO) 216-26, Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products, which bans a class of privacy techniques called “noise infusion” in all data products coming out of the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). This order, which was made effective immediately without opportunity for…

  • New Report Shows Coverage Gains for New Mothers—But Progress has Stalled with New Threats on the Horizon

    A new report from the Urban Institute indicates that health insurance coverage among new mothers in the first year postpartum has improved significantly over recent years, but that progress has begun to stall. Using data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), the researchers find that the uninsured rate among women ages 19 to…

  • Georgetown CCF Medicaid/CHIP Expert Tricia Brooks Retires (sort of) and Will Return as Professor Emeritus

    For anyone who has worked with Tricia Brooks over the last twenty years, it is impossible to imagine her retiring. Tricia has been the heart and soul of much of the Center for Children and Families’ work with state and national partners and a leading national expert on Medicaid eligibility and enrollment, health care quality,…