Our Staff - The New Hampshire Women's Policy Institute

Katie Merrow joined the Women’s Policy Institute in October 2006. Before coming to NHWPI Katie was senior researcher at the NH Center for Public Policy Studies, where she focused on issues related to alcohol and drug abuse and treatment, corrections policy, data quality, and faith-based social services. Prior to that Katie worked extensively in state government throughout New England, including providing fiscal and policy analysis for the Rhode Island Division for Mental Health and the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ways and Means. Katie graduated cum laude from Middlebury College and received her masters in business from Southern New Hampshire University. She is a 2006 graduate of the Leadership New Hampshire program. Katie lives in Hopkinton with her husband and three sons.

Laura R. McGlashan has worked as a research consultant to the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, focusing on juvenile justice research, drug court evaluation, and children’s mental health. Laura has also worked as a consultant to the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy in Boston , MA . Projects at the Division have included: performing quality analysis on hospital discharge data, documenting the inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department databases, and analyzing the impact of the HIPAA legislation on the Division’s data collection programs. Prior to that, she worked as an associate attorney in a general practice law firm in Massachusetts . Laura holds a B.S. in Environmental Management/Urban Planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a J.D. from New England School of Law, and a Master in Public Health degree from Boston University .