Howard Friedman

Howard Friedman leads many research initiatives at UNFPA focusing on data analytics, costing and cost-benefit estimation. He recently led the Adolescent Investment Case work that was published in The Journal of Adolescent Health (2019) and has authored/co-authored over 100 scientific papers, book chapters, textbooks and lay-audience books in his career. He previously served as the Secretariat of the UN Working Group on Costing. In addition to his work at UNFPA, Friedman teaches at Statistics, Program Evaluation and Machine Learning courses at Columbia University. Before coming to the United Nations, he was a Director of Data Modeling and Analytics in the private sector. He holds a Masters in Statistics and a Ph.D, in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.