Kaylee Janakos is an analyst whose work focuses on Medicaid data systems and program evaluation. At Mathematica, she supports federal initiatives focused on Medicaid reporting, opioid use, maternal health, Medicaid expenditures, and the quality of data from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) and T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF).
Her work has included supporting the migration of the Race/Ethnicity Imputation file production system from SAS to Databricks Python, leading automation and documentation enhancement efforts. Janakos has also provided technical assistance to states on performance indicator data associated with Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. In addition, she has provided data review, specification updates, and analytic support for products related to Medicaid expenditures; maternal health; and Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment reporting.
Outside of Medicaid data systems work, Janakos served as project manager for the Health Access Fund Evaluation, a partnership with Uber Health and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, evaluating efforts to reduce transportation-related barriers to care. She is also a project manager, deputy task lead for partner engagement, and state liaison for a five-year evaluation of the Fair Chance Initiative, focused on improving employment opportunities and reducing barriers for people affected by the criminal legal system.
Before joining Mathematica, Janakos worked in nonprofit, research, and community engagement roles focused on advancing access and public service. Her experience includes serving as a data steward for a reentry nonprofit and college-in-prison program and contributing to public health research on opioid mortality in Chicago published in the Journal of Urban Health. She has also held community engagement positions centered on outreach, partnership development, and stakeholder engagement. Janakos earned a bachelor’s degree in information science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in urban informatics at Northeastern University.
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