Dr. Freed’s health services research focuses on child health policy and health economics, child health equity, immunizations, physician behavior, the medical workforce, and inter-specialty variation in the provision of preventive services to children. He established U-M's Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center and pediatric health services research fellowship program, the first such NIH-funded program in the nation. He serves on several national and international committees regarding child health. He is a past Chair of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and a frequent consultant to state and federal agencies as well as the National Academy of Medicine and the World Health Organization. He is a past president of the Society for Pediatric Research, the largest research society in child health.
Most recently, he established the Program for Equity in Adolescent Health (PEACH) and the Michigan Child Health Equity Collaborative (MI-CHEC).
- M.D., Baylor College
- M.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- B.A., Biology, University of Texas
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