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Dr. Fiedler has served as a Vice President of SSDS since 1995 (with a three year hiatus from 2003-2005 when he was Senior Health Economist at the World Bank), and currently works on a portfolio of projects related to health economics, sector reform, and policy formulation.
His consultancies and research have included the application of a range of specialist skills and techniques including economic and financial analysis, project design, health planning, program (including quasi-experimental design-based) evaluation, and cost-effectiveness analysis, statistical analysis, and behavioral modeling.
His professional experience ranges from macro-level planning at the national level to evaluation of specific programs and non-governmental organizations delivering health services. He has extensive experience working with large data sets, including Living Standards Measurement Surveys (LSMS), Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), the U.S. National Medical Care Expenditures Surveys, and longitudinal U.S. State Medicaid data sets consisting of up to 38 million records. He has undertaken approximately 100 short-term consultancies both in the U.S. and in over 35 developing countries in all major regions of the world.
Widely published in the field of international health economics, he is the author of over 50 articles, book chapters, and studies published in journals including: Social Science and Medicine, World Development, Health Policy and Planning, the International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Health Policy, and the Economics of Education Review. He has served as a referee of manuscript submissions for Social Science and Medicine, World Development, Health Policy and Planning, the International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Public Health Nutrition and served on the World Bank s Health, Nutrition and Population Editorial Board.
Dr. Fiedler earned his B.A. in Economics, with Distinction, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, also in Economics, from Vanderbilt University. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Latin American studies from Vanderbilt.