Jonathan Abbamonte is a policy analyst with the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. Abbamonte brings expertise in statistical modeling, research, data processing, machine learning, and programming to the Center for Data Analysis.

His interest areas in research are abortion, family policy, marriage, demography, fertility, and religious affiliation and practice. Abbamonte also has expertise on the Mexico City Policy, sex-selective abortion, U.S. foreign assistance in the area of family planning and reproductive health, and population control programs such as China’s former One-Child Policy.

In the field of statistics, his research interests include panel and longitudinal methods of data analysis, interrupted time series, efficient and low-bias estimators for treatment effects in panel models, population projection models, and machine learning.

Before joining The Heritage Foundation, Abbamonte was a research analyst at the Population Research Institute (PRI) conducting research on right to life issues, pro-family issues, population control, financial flows for international abortion NGOs, and human rights in foreign assistance programming. Before then, he had completed internships with the Family Research Council (FRC) and the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM).

His articles have appeared in The Hill, The Washington Examiner, The Epoch Times, The Deccan Herald, LifeSiteNews, LifeNews, Townhall, Christian Post, Scroll.in, The American Thinker, Crisis Magazine, and others. He has done interviews for The Washington Times, AFA Radio, World Radio, Victory News, and the China Daily USA.

Abbamonte has a master's degree in statistical science from George Mason University and a bachelor's degree in philosophy from The Catholic University of America.