Charles Harpole
Senior Policy Analyst, Program on Medicare Policy
Charles Harpole is a Senior Policy Analyst for the Program on Medicare Policy at KFF. Charles specializes in health care quality measurement, health care financing, and program evaluation. Prior to joining KFF, he advised the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on federal health care policy initiatives, using quantitative methods to evaluate health care quality, provider performance, and public health outcomes on behalf of Abt Global.
Harpole holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and political science from the University of Kentucky and received a master’s degree and a PhD in political science from The Ohio State University.