Trudy Lieberman

Trudy Lieberman, a journalist for more than 30 years, is director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union. She continues to write about health policy for Consumer Reports, is a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review and a contributor to The Nation. She has won numerous awards and honors including two National Magazine Awards, ten National Press Club Awards, a Fulbright Fellowship to study health care in Japan and a John J. McCloy Fellowship to study health care in Germany. She teaches media ethics as an adjunct professor at New York University. She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and holds a certificate in economics and business journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in 1976–77. Lieberman will examine how the media contribute to waste and harm in health care.