Emily Friedman
Health Policy & Ethics Analyst
Emily Friedman is an independent writer, speaker, teacher, and health policy and ethics analyst based in Chicago. Friedman is most noted for her work in health policy (including health care reform initiatives), health care trends, health care quality improvement activities, health insurance and managed care, the social ethics of health care, ethics issues for health care leaders, health care for the underserved, health care history, population demographics and their implications for health care, and the relationship of the public with the health care system.
Emily Friedman is an independent writer, speaker, teacher, and health policy and ethics analyst based in Chicago. She is contributing editor of Hospitals & Health Networks and contributing writer for the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Progress. Friedman also writes a regular column for Hospitals & Health Networks Weekly. She is most noted for her work in health policy (including health care reform initiatives), health care trends, health care quality improvement activities, health insurance and managed care, the social ethics of health care, ethics issues for health care leaders, health care for the underserved, health care history, population demographics and their implications for health care, and the relationship of the public with the health care system.
Friedman has written more than 750 articles and editorials in the past 33 years. She authored The Aloha Way: Health Care Structure and Finance in Hawaii and The Right Thing: Ten Years of Ethics Columns from the Healthcare Forum Journal. She writes on health care for the World Book Encyclopedia Yearbook and the Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Friedman is currently writing a history of health care in Minnesota and recently published major articles, white papers, and reports on lessons from health care in Cambodia, current U.S. health care reform efforts, the ethics of health care reform, food and drug safety in the United States, and participation of minority groups in clinical trials.
A prolific public speaker, Friedman addresses audiences ranging from state legislators to allied health professionals to nursing and medical groups to community groups to hospital and health system leaders and health care associations. As a former Rockefeller Fellow in Ethics at Dartmouth College, Friedman has also lectured at many universities around the world.
She also serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, which has repeatedly named her one of its highest-rated teachers. In addition, she is a consultant on information dissemination to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has made many radio and television appearances, including ABC News Nightline and on National Public Radio programs, notably "To the Point," with Warren Olney.
Friedman has won many awards and honors, including being an Honorary Life Member of the American Hospital Association, an Honorary Life Member of the American Medical Association, a Fellow of Academy Health and an Honorary Lifetime Fellow of the American Academy of Medical Administrators. She has received the Corning Award of the Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development. The Emily Friedman Award for improvements in community health is presented annually by Community Health Partners.
Additionally, Friedman has won numerous awards for her research and writing including a National Award of Excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors forher column, "Making Choices," in Health Forum Journal. In April 2005, she was named one of the "Top 25 Women in Healthcare" by the editors of Modern Healthcare. In 2002, 2004, and 2006, the readers of Modern Healthcare named her as one of the 100 most powerful people in the health care field.
Friedman is originally from Los Angeles. In 1968 she received a B.A. degree in English, with honors, from the University of California at Berkeley.
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