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Madelon Lubin Finkel



Madelon Lubin Finkel is Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research and Director Office of Global Health Education at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. She holds a doctorate in epidemiology and health services research from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of New York University. In addition to her faculty appointment at Weill Cornell Medical College, Finkel was a Visiting Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney (Australia) in 2004, and was a Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine in Bangkok Thailand in 2016. In 2008, she was named a Fulbright Senior Specialist awarded by the Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The program promotes linkages between U.S. academics and professionals and their counterparts at universities abroad.

Finkel has been involved in epidemiological research and health care policy studies. Her pioneering work on second surgical opinion programs led to the widespread adoption and implementation of the second opinion benefit required by almost all insurance companies, corporations, and unions. She has published numerous articles in the area of health care cost management. Women's health issues have been the focus of past and present research projects. Finkel, in consultation with the New York City Board of Education, conducted many studies in the area of teenage pregnancy and childbearing. Her work led to the revision of the sexual education curriculum, which was implemented by the Board of Education in the early 1980s. Her work in the area of hormone replacement therapy focused on alternatives for women experiencing menopause. She is now working on a cervical cancer screening project in rural India, and is studying the health impact of hydraulic fracturing. Finkel's publications on unconventional gas extraction have been cited widely in the lay and professional press. Her article with Adam Law, "The Rush to Drill for Natural Gas: A Public Health Cautionary Tale", calls for epidemiologic studies to assess the potential for harm to human health. Finkel and Law wrote the seminal piece on the potential for harm to human health from unconventional gas development. Since that publication, she has written numerous pieces in the lay and professional press on the health impact of hydraulic fracturing.


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