Faculty spotlight: Fred Goldstein on health systems, prevention and population health
Fred Goldstein, an instructor in the John D. Bower School of Population Health, brings more than three decades of experience in population health, disease management, HMO operations and hospital operations to his work with students.
Goldstein is the founder and president of Accountable Health, LLC, a health care consulting firm. His career has included work with employers, health systems and vendors to develop population health programs and services. He also founded a disease management company that provided services to employer groups and 10 state Medicaid programs, and he operated a Medicaid and commercial HMO that was ranked the highest-quality Medicaid health plan in Florida.
His work has also shaped health policy. Goldstein was directly responsible for the inclusion of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit in the Affordable Care Act, an example of how population health principles can influence care delivery at the national level.
In addition to his teaching and consulting work, Goldstein serves on the editorial board of the journal Population Health Management, the founding advisory board of Population Health News and is past chair of the board of the Population Health Alliance. He has testified before legislatures in Alaska, Florida, Kentucky and Texas on disease and population health management.
Goldstein also is co-founder and lead host of PopHealth Week, a weekly podcast focused on public health, health care delivery, prevention and policy. Through the podcast, he leads conversations with experts on issues that connect directly to SOPH’s mission, including health systems, prevention, population health strategy and the need to move health care further upstream.
For SOPH students, Goldstein’s experience offers a practical connection between classroom learning and the realities of health care systems. His work helps show how population health principles apply across hospitals, health plans, employer health systems, public programs and other settings where decisions affect the health of communities.
Goldstein received a Master of Science in Health Care Administration from Trinity University and a Bachelor of Arts in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley.