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==Advocacy == === Boards === Dr. Friedman has served on the Board of the [[International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis]] (IACFS/ME) and is a Trustee of the [[New Jersey ME/CFS Association|New Jersey ME/CFS Association (NJMECFSA)]]. Dr. Friedman was, also, the Secretary and Chair of Public Policy for [http://www.pandoraorg.net/ PANDORA Org] and an advisor to the website [http://www.cfsknowledgecenter.com/ cfsKnowledgebase].<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.healthrising.org/authors/kenneth-friedman-p-hd/ | title = Kenneth Friedman P.hD | website = Health Rising|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-03}}</ref> He is currently serving as a Board member of both the [[New Jersey ME/CFS Association]] and the [[The Vermont CFIDS Association]].<ref name=":1" /> ===CFSAC=== From 2003-2006, he served on the [[Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee]] (CFSAC) for the [[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]], as a member of the Research Committee. During his term, he wrote a Research Committee minority report entitled, β[http://immunedysfunction.org/fishorwar.html Fish Or War]." In it he argues that the [[National Institutes of Health]] had not solved CFS in the past 15 or 20 years, so new "more aggressive funding elements should be incorporated into the United Statesβ future funding of CFS research."<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://immunedysfunction.org/fishorwar.html | title = Fish or War?|website=immunedysfunction.org|access-date=2019-09-03}}</ref> In 2014, he was the Sub-group Chair of the [[CFSAC]] Working Group justifying the establishment and funding of ME/CFS Centers of Excellence by the [[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]].<ref>http://www.hhs.gov/advcomcfs/meetings/minutes/cfsac-dec3-2014-meeting-minutes-rev-3-02-2015.pdf</ref><ref name=":2" /> ===Open letter to ''The Lancet''=== Two [[open letter to the Lancet | open letters to the editor of ''The Lancet'']] urged the editor to commission a fully independent review of the [[PACE trial]], which the journal had published in 2011. In 2016, Dr. Friedman, along with 41 colleagues in the [[ME/CFS]] field, signed the second letter. *10 February 2016, [http://www.virology.ws/2016/02/10/open-letter-lancet-again/ An open letter to The Lancet, again - Virology blog]
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