Isabel Friedenzohn
Deputy Director

Isabel Friedenzohn is the deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) program which works with state policy leaders to develop strategies to improve insurance coverage. During her tenure with SCI, she has been grant coordinator for the program and also the monitor for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) State Planning Grant contract at AcademyHealth, which ended in 2007. She has been intimately involved in writing five State of the States publications and was the managing editor for the 2006 and 2007 issues. Most recently, Ms. Friedenzohn implemented the Coverage Institute, SCI's new technical assistance offering, to provide support to 14 states that are considering substantial and comprehensive health reform and to help their state officials develop the capacity to understand the implications of different programmatic decisions and how those may impact the existing system.

Ms. Friedenzohn joined AcademyHealth in October 2001 after receiving a Master's of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Tel: 202.292.6726
Fax: 202.292.6826
E-mail: Isabel.Friedenzohn@academyhealth.org