Nicole Fisher

Nicole Fender (Fisher) Roberts (born March 27, 1982) is an American human rights and international policy advisor, primarily focusing on health care. Roberts is a Contributor for Forbes Magazine, has spoken at the United Nations, 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 Roberts left the public sector to create a private consulting firm focused on health and human rights: Health & Human Rights Strategies. In 2018 she launched a YouTube channel answering global public health questions for readers and viewers and in 2020 launched a video podcast called The Global Good Podcast. Roberts is currently the Executive Director of Feed A Billion, a nonprofit dedicated to feeding girls to prevent exploitation and child marriage.
Early life
Nicole 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, Roberts began writing for Forbes Magazine and spent significant time working in clinics and hospitals in India, South East Asia and Latin America.
Career
Policy
Roberts 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." At the state and federal level she crafted concussion legislation for youth sports and accused the NFL of altering neuroscience data. In 2012, Roberts was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief 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, Nicole's work has predominantly addressed issues such as access to clean water, women's right to vote and refugee health.
Sports
In 2015, Roberts was named to the board of the Brain Treatment Foundation, a nonprofit focused on brain health, specifically tailoring treatment plans to combat veterans. To much controversy, in 2015 Roberts also started a series of concussion events at NFL gatherings. Subsequently, each year at the Super Bowl she hosts a Brain Health Summit 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.

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