Helene is a senior research fellow at CEPR and studies health care, labor markets, and employment benefits. She has a PhD in economics from American University and an MS in environmental science and policy from George Mason University. Her book Sick and Tired: How the U.S. Health Care System Fails Its Patients (Polipoint Press, 2010) tells the story of her own battle with Lyme disease and examines the institutional failures of the health-care system.
Helene has served as an advisor to the US Census Bureau’s Advisory Committee on the Decennial Census and chaired the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Labor Research Advisory Subcommittee. She has also worked as an economist for the public policy department of the AFL-CIO.