Judith Feder, Ph.D., is Professor and Dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. She is one of the nation's leaders in understanding and improving the nation's health insurance system. A widely published scholar, her three decades of policy research began at the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institute, and, since 1984, at Georgetown University. Members of Congress, Executive officials, and the national media regularly draw on her expertise on such issues as the uninsured, Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care. As staff director of the congressional Pepper Commission, chaired by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Dr. Feder is widely credited with setting the stage for the health reform debate of the 1990s. She later became a senior official in the Clinton Administration, helping to shape the Administration's policy to promote the expansion of health care coverage. Dr. Feder is former chair and board member of AcademyHealth; Policy Council Member of the Academy of Public Policy and management; and elected member of the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. She is a political scientist with a B.A. from Brandeis University (1968) and a Master's (1970) and Ph.D. (1977) from Harvard University. Dr. Feder's resumé can be downloaded by clicking here.

1. From Research to Policy: A Mental Health Research Agenda for the 21st Century – Goldman, Feder, and the Network

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