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Brittni Frederiksen is an associate director for Women’s Health Policy at KFF, where she focuses on Title X, contraceptive access, and a range of other sexual and reproductive health topics. She works on several survey projects, such as KFF’s Women’s Health Survey, and leads the women’s health team’s work on private insurance and Medicaid claims analyses. She is particularly interested in utilization and costs of contraceptive and abortion services.
Frederiksen currently serves on the Federal Office of Population Affairs’ Quality Family Planning Expert Workgroup that is providing feedback on the update of the Federal Quality Family Planning Guidelines. She is also a member of the National Contraceptive Quality Measures workgroup, which is informing the development of patient-centered, equity-focused contraceptive measures. Frederiksen is a reproductive epidemiologist who previously worked at the Office of Population Affairs in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was also Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Fellow at the Iowa Department of Public Health.
Frederiksen holds a master’s in public health degree in maternal and child health epidemiology from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the Colorado School of Public Health.