Dr. Kenneth Freedberg is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.
He is the Director of the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Director of the Program in Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research at the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, and Director of the Program in HIV Research in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests focus on HIV and tuberculosis, as well as other chronic disease clinical outcomes and health policy, utilizing the methods of comparative effectiveness, cost-effectiveness analysis, clinical epidemiology, and implementation science.
Dr. Freedberg earned an MD from Harvard Medical School and also holds an MSc from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The Program in Clinical Effectiveness, of which Dr. Freedberg was a member of the inaugural class in 1987 (18 people), had a profound effect on his career. At the end of his project presentation in August (a prospective cohort study), Lee Goldman suggested starting with a decision analysis. That comment, made before there was a single proven effective therapy for HIV, turned out to define the direction of his research for the next 30 years.
