Nicole Fisher

Nicole Fender Fisher (born March 27, 1982) is an American human rights and international policy advisor, primarily focusing on health care. Fisher is a Contributor for Forbes Magazine,[1] has spoken at the United Nations,[2] and often appears on news and sports networks. She has also been council to political advisors from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, United Nations and U.S. Department of State. In 2013 Fisher left the public sector to create a private consulting firm focused on health and human rights: HHR Strategies,[3] as well as a nonprofit addressing brain health.[4] In 2018 Fisher launched a YouTube channel[5] answering global public health questions for readers and viewers.

Fisher in Bangladesh (2013)

Early life

Fisher was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but attended middle school and high school in the Ozark Mountains in Missouri. She received a B.A. in psychology and biology from the University of Missouri, a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Chicago while working in healthcare systems abroad, and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina. During her schooling she focused primarily on global public health, policy and neuroscience. While in her doctoral program, Fisher began writing for Forbes Magazine[6] and spent significant time working in clinics and hospitals in India, South East Asia and Latin America.

Career

Policy

Fisher has been an advisor on Capitol Hill and to the North Carolina, Illinois and Louisiana state legislatures. Her legislative writing primarily focuses on public health, health reform, technology, Medicare, Medicaid and "contextual health.[7]" At the state and federal level she crafted concussion legislation for youth sports and accused the NFL of altering neuroscience data.[8] In 2012, Fisher was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief[9] submitted to the Supreme Court in support of severability during the National Federation of Independent Business v Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, as it pertained to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In 2016 she published an immigration reform brief with the MacArthur Foundation on the U.S. health labor sector, calling for more international and foreign-born providers.

Internationally, Fisher's work has predominantly addressed issues such as access to clean water, women's right to vote and refugee health.

Sports

In 2015, Fisher was named to the board of the Brain Treatment Foundation,[10] a nonprofit focused on brain health, specifically tailoring treatment plans to combat veterans. To much controversy, in 2015 Fisher also started a series of concussion events at NFL gatherings. Subsequently, each year at the Super Bowl she hosts a Brain Health Summit[11] with agent Leigh Steinberg. Before Super Bowl LIII Fisher was involved in a documentary series that consists of Brett Favre, Floyd Mayweather, and Roy Jones Jr. called Concussed: The American Dream[12].

Personal life

Fisher currently lives in Washington, D.C..

References
  1. Nicole Fisher. "Nicole Fisher". Forbes.
  2. "UN Live United Nations Web TV - Search Results for "c4ct" - (Part 2) Concussion Awareness Summit, and Mission of Malawi". un.org.
  3. "HHR Strategies". hhrstrategies.com.
  4. "Brain Treatment Foundation". Brain Treatment Foundation. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  5. "HHR Strategies - Nicole Fisher". YouTube. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  6. Fisher, Nicole. "Nicole Fisher". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  7. Fisher. "Contextual Health - 2019 Forbes Books". LinkedIn.
  8. "Bill Status of SB0007". 99th General Assembly. Illinois General Assembly. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  9. http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs/11-393_petitioneramcueconomists.authcheckdam.pdf
  10. "Brain Treatment Foundation". Brain Treatment Foundation.
  11. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lipiroy/2020/02/04/fragility-of-football-super-bowl-brain-summit-tackles-medical-and-mental-health-issues-impacting-athletes/#1dc417156991. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. "Nicole Fisher". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
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