Jennifer Alton | President
Pathway Policy Group

Jenn Alton is President of Pathway Policy Group, a health policy consulting firm. She is an expert in policy structuring and public health advocacy, with over two decades of experience in senior corporate and federal government roles. Jenn advises senior leaders in the private, non-profit and public sectors on external affairs strategies and organizational structure, including government relations, coalition building, and strategic communications.

Jenn previously worked in the biotechnology industry, leading the establishment of the U.S. government affairs office for a multi-national company developing vaccines for infectious diseases as well as cancer immunotherapies. Jenn led the company’s public policy and federal government affairs activities, including policy development, political advocacy, public affairs, alliance development, and trade association management.

Jenn worked on Capitol Hill as Public Health Policy Director with the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (Senator Richard Burr). She led the development and negotiation of policy and legislation on a variety of public health issues, and successfully shepherded the bipartisan Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act into law. Jenn also worked at the Department of Health and Human Services on two occasions; she was originally selected as a Presidential Management Fellow and received the Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service; later she advised leadership of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response. Jenn earned her Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California Los Angeles, Luskin School of Public Affairs.