Nicole Friedman is a healthcare executive with more than 14 years of experience advancing health equity and improving outcomes for underserved populations across payer systems, community-based organizations, and care delivery settings. She specializes in designing and scaling social health and population health strategies that integrate clinical care with social services to deliver measurable impact.

She currently serves as the  National Director of Social Health at Kaiser Permanente, leading enterprise-wide social health strategy across eight markets serving more than 13 million members. She spearheaded the organization’s Community Health Worker strategy, increased social needs screenings across clinical care settings, —resulting in more than 1.3 million members annually receiving social support services. She also directed a multi-state community resource referral platform enabling closed-loop referrals for over 200,000 members each year.