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Howard Friedman
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Associate Professor
Phone: 212-854-3213
hf2222@columbia.edu
Biography:
Howard Friedman works as a statistician and health economist for the United Nations, currently focused on the areas of maternal and newborn child health, health expenditures, and fertility at UNFPA. He has been a lead modeler on a number of key United Nations projects including the ICPD @ 15 Costing, High Level Task Force on Innovative Financing, and the Adding It Up reports. He is credited with being the lead developer of the tool used for costing the Health-related Millennium Development Goals within UNDP.
Prior to joining the United Nations, Friedman ran Analytic Solutions LLC which provides consulting services in areas of designing, developing and modeling data. This work also included teaching taught data mining and modeling techniques for major international corporations and foreign governments. Before owning Analytic Solutions, LLC, he was a director at Capital One where he led teams of statisticians, analysts and programmers in various areas of operations and marketing.
Howard is the author of over 35 scientific articles and book chapters in areas of applied statistics, health economics where recent publications have appeared in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, Current Medical Research & Opinion, Clinical Therapeutics, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, Clinical Drug Investigation and Value in Health. He also recently published the book, Measure of a Nation: How to Regain America's Competitive Edge and Boost Our Global Standing.
Howard Friedman received his BS from Binghamton University in Applied Physics. He receives a Masters in Statistics and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
His personal interests include foreign languages, international travel, painting (angelsandstardust.com) and Tai Chi.
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