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  • Eric Weinberger
     
    Cambridge, Massachusetts 

    Writer, Editor, Writing Instructor
     
    Specializing in narratives, case studies, white papers and more; usually in the fields of health care delivery, education, and international development.
     
    Author of a new e-book on the skiing life, Snow Melts
     
    From 1999 until 2007 I taught over 400 Harvard undergraduates their mandatory course in expository writing, and for even longer (until 2010) I taught arts criticism and travel writing at Harvard Extension School.    Since 1992, I have published nearly 100 essays, articles, op-eds, reviews and more (some fiction too) in leading newspapers, magazines and literary journals in the U.S., Britain, and Australia. Some of those pieces can be found below.
     
    I grew up in The Hague, the Netherlands, where I attended international schools and where my parents lived for 28 years; so it was always a place I went back to. I graduated from Yale University with a BA (magna cum laude) in history, and for the last 17 years have lived in Cambridge, Mass., where incidentally I was born.  
     
    Since 2011, I have been writing narrative case studies in the field of health care delivery, primarily for Dartmouth College but also including an ongoing series of fictional scenarios - set in the heretofore unknown U.S. state of Columbia - for Harvard School of Public Health. 
     
    Currently much of my work is for the office of President Jim Yong Kim at the World Bank Group in Washington. 
     
    Contact me at eric_weinberger@yahoo.com to discuss the kind of writing I can do for you.

  • Client List 
    • The World Bank 
    • The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI)
    • Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard School of Public Health
    • The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University
    • Cambridge Health Alliance
    • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
    • Partners in Health
    • and more

  • Writing for Clients
     

    Fictional Case Studies for the Harvard School of Public Health and Boston Children's Hospital
     
    CASE 7: Full of Surprises: Dietary Supplements and the Gym, or, a Tale of Corporate Social Responsibility 
    (December 2015)
     
    CLICK here for all previous six published narratives

     Weighing the Evidence: One University Takes a Hard Look at Disordered Eating Among Athletes

    (February 2015)

     

    Some Skin in the Game: Negotiating the End of a Campus Menace

    (December 2014)

     

    Beauty and the Breast: Mobilizing Community Action to Take on the Beauty Industry

    (June 2014)

     

    “The Governor Is Very Interested”: Or, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for School Health Screenings

    (March 2014)

     

    “Retweet Does Not Imply Endorsement”: The Logic of Cyberbullying in Schools

    (December 2013)

     

    "Who’s Calling Me Fat? Or, How Columbia Got Its Obesity Prevention Campaign Back on Track"
     (Spring 2013)
     
     
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    Case Studies for The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science
    (now part of the Dartmouth Center for Health Policy and Clinical Research, TDI)
     

    DOWNLOAD the Group Health case here!
     
    On the Comprehensive Breast Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH (Spring 2012)
        -- Doing a lot with a little: One medical leader for one small program in a large hospital figures out how to improve outcomes through advocacy of shared decision-making and other collaborations.
     
    On the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, Camden, NJ (Summer 2012)
       -- Making the whole more than the sum of its parts: How one organization in a poor city anticipates the future of primary care medicine by knitting together community providers, hospitals and services.
     
    On the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, WA (Fall 2012)
       -- Cultural change in medicine: How does a large health care provider and insurer make the practice of shared decision-making work throughout the organization?
     
      (all three available on request)
    Available on Request

    Coming Soon...

     
    A fable for our times on, specifically, the health-care crisis in the United States: a Boston-Dartmouth collaboration with Patrick Lee, MD, and Chris Trimble
    (Winter 2015)
  • Writing for Myself

    Essay: The Skiing Life

    New Haven Review, Winter 2010
    Chosen as "Notable American Sports Writing 2010," in Best American Sports Writing 2011

    Essay: All the President's Books

    The Boston Globe, November 21, 2010

    Op-Ed: Why is Yale Outsourcing a Campus to Singapore? 

    The Atlantic (online), October 27, 2011

    Essay: Salter's Flight Path

    The Nation, February 22, 2001

    Essay on William Trevor: The Last Edwardian

    The Nation, December 21, 2000

    Short Story: Once More, with Feeling
     (audio only)

    The Drum, April 2012

    Essay: Ski Bums

    Ecotone, Spring 2008

    Op-Ed: Grief Drives a Dad Insane

    Chicago Tribune, September 14, 2004

    Essay on Orwell as Blogger ("Homage to Blogalonia")

    Salon, July 21, 2003

    Essay on the Alps in Literature

    Salon, September 25, 2006

    Review of "Saul and Patsy" by Charles Baxter

    The New York Times Book Review, September 14, 2003

    Review of "Ten Little Indians" by Sherman Alexie

    The New York Times Book Review, June 15, 2003

    Review of "All That Is" by James Salter

    The Spectator, May 25, 2013

    Review of "A Hologram for The King" by Dave Eggers

    The Spectator, January 26, 2013

    Review of "The Castle in the Forest" by Norman Mailer

    The Spectator, February 15, 2007

    Op-Ed: What the MFA Owes Boston

    The Boston Globe Magazine, February 19, 2012

    Op-Ed: Will Academic Freedom Be Protected at Yale's New College in Singapore?

    The New Republic (online), December 30, 2010

    Review of "Matters of Honor" by Louis Begley

    Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2007

    Review of "The Lonely Polygamist" by Brady Udall

    The New York Times Book Review, May 14, 2010

    Review of "While Europe Slept" by Bruce Bawer

    The Boston Globe, March 12, 2006

    Review of "The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil" by George Saunders

    The New York Times Book Review, October 2, 2005

    Essay: Soccer Sociology

    The Boston Globe, June 27, 2004

    Essay on "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh

    The Boston Globe, July 24, 2005

    Essay in memory of Rupert Saunders ("Logging on to Life and Death")

    The Daily Telegraph, February 7, 2007

    Travel Essay: Walking in the Mountains of Mourne, Northern Ireland

    The New York Times, March 31, 1996

    Travel Essay: Biking along the River IJssel in the Netherlands

    The New York Times, July 21, 1996

    Travel Essay: Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia

    The New York Times, March 6, 1994
         (The first of 14 travel essays or articles for the Sunday Travel section between 1994 and 1999)

    Essay on the retirement of Yale historian Edmund S. Morgan

    Yale Daily News, May 3, 1989

    Argument for Shared Decision Making between Physicians and Patients

    Boston Globe Magazine, October 13, 2013

    Essay on Dutch love of skiing

    International New York Times, 15 Feb 2014
  • Latest News and Publications

    SEPTEMBER 2016
    Gary Younge's reporting on US gun violence, Another Day in the Death of America, is reviewed in The Spectator. Read it here.
     
    AUGUST 2016
    The eighth STRIPED case narrative, free online!  "Patina of Glamour: Forging Alliances to Investigate the Underside of the Fashion Industry" on beleaguered fashion models and an attempt at community-based participatory research to evaluate legislation proposed to protect them: See summary and links to all case documents
     
    JUNE 2016
    John Wray's novel, The Lost Time Accidents, is reviewed in The Spectator. Read it here.
     
    FEBRUARY 2016
    Elizabeth Strout's novel, My Name is Lucy Barton, is reviewed in The Spectator. Read it here.
     
    JANUARY 2016
    A review of the UK reprint of Calvin Trillin's novel, Tepper Isn't Going Out, in The Spectator: Read it here.
     
    DECEMBER 2015
    The seventh STRIPED case narrative, free online!  "Full of Surprises: Dietary Supplements and the Gym, or, a Tale of Corporate Social Responsibility," on weight-loss pills used at the gym, and one member's campaign of resistance:  See summary and links to all case documents
     
    APRIL 2015  
    "Snow Melts," a collection of my published ski writing over 20 years - an e-book from Byliner/Vook, available for $2.99 via Amazon
    Apple iBooks, Google Play, or Kobo.
     
    MARCH 2015
    A sixth STRIPED case narrative, free online!  "Weighing the Evidence: One University Takes a Hard Look at Disordered Eating Among Athletes," on eating disorders and college athletics, and used in NCAA promotions:  See summary and links to all case documents
     
    DECEMBER 2014
    A review of the latest Frank Bascombe novel by Richard Ford, in The Spectator: Read it here.
     
    DECEMBER 2014
    A new STRIPED case narrative, free online!  "Some Skin in the Game: Negotiating the End of a Campus Menace," on tanning salons and university students: Scroll to bottom for case number 5!
     
     
    Richard Ford review by Eric Weinberger

    24 SEPTEMBER 2016
      Review in The Spectator of Gary Younge's reporting on US gun violence against children and teenagers:
     
    "Another Day in the Death of America"

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