Chris Jennings is president of Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc. (JPS, Inc.), a nationally respected health policy and advocacy consulting firm that provides policy analysis, strategic guidance, and coalition building services. JPS, Inc., clients include consumer groups, labor organizations, businesses, public employers, generic drug manufacturers, and not-for-profit foundations. Mr. Jennings is a health policy veteran of more than 25 years of the Congress, the White House, and the private sector.
Prior to founding JPS, Inc., Mr. Jennings served in the White House as the senior health care advisor to President William Jefferson Clinton at the Domestic Policy and National Economic Councils. In this capacity, Mr. Jennings coordinated and oversaw the health policy work of numerous federal agencies and made significant contributions toward the enactment of major bipartisan health legislation including the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Mental Health Parity Act, and the doubling of funding for research at NIH and the tripling of funding for international AIDS programs for prevention, care, treatment, and health infrastructure. Recognizing his work at the White House, the National Journal designated Mr. Jennings as one of Washington’s 100 most influential individuals in the entire federal government.
As a long-time health reform advocate, Mr. Jennings serves as co-staff director of the Robert Wood Johnson-funded Bipartisan Policy Center’s Leaders’ health reform project with former Majority Leaders’ Baker, Daschle, Dole, and Mitchell. He also serves on the Boards of the National Quality Forum, the National Organization for Rare Disorders, and the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship. Mr. Jennings served as the Policy Advisor to the 2008 Democratic Platform Drafting Committee and previous to that appointment served as a senior healthcare advisor to then Senator Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign.
