Deborah Freund

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Deborah Anne Freund is an American academic, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and formerly Vice Chancellor and Provost for Academic Affairs at Syracuse University. She was in the running to replace Albert Carnesale as Chancellor of the UCLA. Somewhat unexpectedly, though, at the very end she withdrew her application - allegedly because her husband, Thomas Kniesner, was not offered a Professorship at UCLA's Department of Economics. On May 19, 2006, she resigned her position as Vice Chancellor at Syracuse.[1]

In January 2006, Freund was in the running to become the next president of the University of Arizona, but did not receive the position; instead, it was given to Robert N. Shelton, the provost at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[2]


[edit] Education and academic career

Freund received an A.B. in classics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1973, an M.P.H. in medical care administration in 1975, an M.A. in applied economics in 1975, and a Ph.D. in economics in 1980, the latter three degrees all from the University of Michigan.

Before receiving her appointments as Vice Chancellor and Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Public Administration at Syracuse University, she was vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the faculties from 1994-1999 and Professor of Public Affairs among other professorial appointments at Indiana University Bloomington. She has held visiting professorships at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of London, the Australian National University, and Keio University. She has published over 120 journal articles and chapters, two books, and has been principal investigator of over $30 million in grants and contracts. Her research interests are health economics, Medicaid, and pharmacoeconomics, the field concerning the cost and implications of pharmaceutical products and services on people and the healthcare industry, an intersection which she is credited as founding.


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Vice-chancellor drops out of UCLA president race, resigns from SU, The Daily Orange (accessed June 16, 2006).
  2. ^ Vice chancellor to interview for president at UA, (accessed April 30, 2006).

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