Christopher Denson is the Director of Policy and Research at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
Chris brings to the Foundation over a decade of experience in public policy in Georgia and Washington, D.C.
Chris served most recently as Director of Outreach at HCA Memorial Health in Savannah, a 612-bed Level 1 trauma center serving a 32-county region in Southeast Georgia and South Carolina. Prior to that he was Manager of Health Policy Consulting for Leavitt Partners in Washington, D.C., and the Director of Advisory Services for Hometown Health, a multi-state rural hospital trade association based in Georgia.
A native of Douglasville, Ga., Chris graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in Politics and was a member of Princeton’s Varsity Football team. He earned his Master’s in Public Health (Health Policy and Management) at the University of Georgia after beginning his career as a staff member in the Office of U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, managing constituent services and a legislative portfolio of Armed Services and Veterans’ Affairs issues.
Chris is a member of the Zell Miller Leadership Institute Class of 2019 and has served as a volunteer supporting nonprofit delivery of healthcare to uninsured residents in South Georgia.
