Jen Eder is a director with Manatt Health, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory division of Manatt. Jen provides policy analysis and development, research support, project management, and strategic counsel to a wide array of clients across private and public sectors. Jen’s project work primarily focuses on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, particularly maternal and child health, social determinants of health, and delivery and payment system transformation.

Before joining Manatt, Jen served as chief policy officer for PolicyLab at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she oversaw policy advocacy and communications to improve children’s health care provision and coverage. Jennifer also worked at the Center for Science in the Public Interest as a nutrition policy coordinator, managing efforts to reduce unhealthy food marketing to children and improve restaurant children’s meals for consumer advocacy organizations. Earlier in her career, Jen worked as a journalist for five years at several media outlets.