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Nicholas Freudenberg
Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Social/Personality Psychology Executive Officer, Doctor of Public Health Program
Degrees/Diplomas: Doctor of Public Health , Columbia University
Campus Affiliation: CUNY Graduate Center|Hunter College
Research Interests: Public health policy, community health interventions, incarceration and health, impact of corporate practices on health
Phone: 212-817-7986
Email: nfreuden@hunter.cuny.edu

Primary Teaching Areas

Social determinants of urban health, public health policy, public health advocacy

Selected Publications

Books and chapters

  • Freudenberg N. Health research behind bars: A brief guide to research in jails and prisons. in Greifinger, Robert (Ed.), Public Health Behind Bars From Prisons to Communities. Springer, 2008.
  • Ramaswamy M, Freudenberg N. Health Promotion in Jails and Prisons: An Alternative Paradigm for Correctional Health Services in Greifinger, Robert (Ed.), Public Health Behind Bars From Prisons to Communities. Springer, 2008.
  • Themba-Nixon M, Minkler M, Freudenberg N. The Role of Community Based Participatory Research in Policy Advocacy. in Minkler M, Wallerstein, N. eds, Community based Participatory Research from Process to Outcomes, San Francisco Jossey-Bass, 2008, pp 307-322.
  • Freudenberg N, Galea S. Corporate Practices. In Galea S., editor, Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health, Springer, 2007(in press) pp. 67-100. http://www.springerlink.com/content/q3650k8781460p43/fulltext.pdf             
  • Freudenberg N, Galea S, Vlahov D. eds. Cities and the Health of the Public. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006. http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/bookdetail.asp?book_id=4019
  • Freudenberg N and Klitzman S, "Teaching Urban Health" in S.Galea and D. Vlahov (Eds.), Handbook of Urban Health, Springer Verlag, 2005.
  • Schulz AJ, Freudenberg N, Daniels, J. Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Public Health Interventions. Gender, Race, Class and Health: Intersectional Approaches
    Schulz AJ, Mullings L. eds. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, 2005.
  • Freudenberg N, Rogers M, Ritas C, Nerney M. Policy Analysis and Advocacy: An Approach to Community-Based Participatory Research in Israel B et al, eds. Methods for Community Based Participatory Research . Jossey Bass, 2005.
  • Van Olphen, J, Freudenberg N, Galea S, Palermo AG, Ritas C. Advocating policies to promote community reintegration of drug users leaving jail. In: Minkler M, Wallerstein N, editors. Community-Based Participatory Research for Health, San Francisco: Jossey Bass;2003. p.371-389.
  • Freudenberg N, Zimmerman M .eds. AIDS Prevention in the Community: Lessons from the First Decade. Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association;1995.
  • Freudenberg N. Preventing AIDS: A Guide to Effective Education for the Prevention of HIV Infection. Washington D.C.: American Public Health Association;1989.

Articles

  • Freudenberg N, Olden K, Dowd J, Shiels AEK. Discovering how environmental exposures alter genes could lead to new treatments for chronic illnesses. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2011; 30(5):833-841.
  • Freudenberg N, Olden K. Getting Serious About the Prevention of Chronic Diseases. Prev Chronic Dis. 2011;8(4) .
  • Daniels J, Crum M, Ramaswamy M, Freudenberg N. Creating REAL MEN: Description of an Intervention to Reduce Drug Use, HIV risk, and Rearrest Among Young Men Returning to Urban Communities From Jail. Health Promot Pract. 2009
  • Freudenberg N, Picard Bradley S, Serrano M. Public health campaigns to change industry practices that damage health: an analysis of 12 case studies. Health Educ Behav. 2009;36(2):230-49.
  • Valera P, Epperson M, Daniels J, Ramaswamy M, Freudenberg N. Substance use and HIV-risk behaviors among young men involved in the criminal justice system. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2009;35(1):43-7.
  • Freudenberg N, Galea S, Fahs M. Changing corporate practices to reduce cancer disparities. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2008;19(1):26-40. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_health_care_for_the_poor_and_underserved/v019/19.1freudenberg.pdf
  • Freudenberg N, Daniels J, Crum M, Perkins T, richie BE. Coming home from jail: the social and health consequences of community reentry for women, male adolescents, and their families and communities. Am J Public Health. 2008; 98(9 Suppl):S191-202.
  • Freudenberg N, Galea S. Cities of consumption: the impact of corporate practices on the health of urban populations. J Urban Health. 2008;85(4):462-71.
  • Freudenberg N, Galea S. The impact of corporate practices on health: implications for health policy. J Public Health Policy. 2008;29(1):86-104.
  • Freudenberg N, Ruglis J. Reframing high school dropout as a public health issue. Prev Chronic Dis 2007;4(4). http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/oct/pdf/07_0063.pdf
  • Freudenberg N, Fahs M, Galea S, Greenberg A. The impact of New York City's 1975 fiscal crisis on the tuberculosis, HIV, and homicide syndemic. Am J Public Health. 2006;96(3):424-34. http://cunyurbanhealth.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/fiscalcrisis306.pdf
  • Freudenberg N, Daniels J, Crum M, Perkins T, Richie BE.  Coming home from jail: the social and health consequences of community reentry for women, male adolescents, and their families and communities. Am J Public Health. 2005;95(10):1725-36. http://cunyurbanhealth.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/freudenbergajph1005.pdf
  • Freudenberg N. Public health advocacy to change corporate practices: implications for health education practice and research. Health Educ Behav. 2005 ;32(3):298-319. http://heb.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/3/298
  • Galea S, Freudenberg N, Vlahov D. Cities and population health. Soc Sci Med. 2005 Mar;60(5):1017-33. http://cunyurbanhealth.files.wordpress.com/2006/03/
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  • Freudenberg N. Adverse effects of US jail and prison policies on the health and well-being of women of color. Am J Public Health; 92(12):1895-9. Freudenberg N. Jails, prisons, and the health of urban populations: a review of the impact of the correctional system on community health.J Urban Health. 2001;78(2):214-35.
  • Blocker DE, Freudenberg N. Developing comprehensive approaches to prevention and control of obesity among low-income, urban, African-American women. J Am Med Womens Assoc. 2001 Spring;56(2):59-64.

Policy Reports

  • Libman, K, Freudenberg, N. Reversing the Diabetes and Obesity Epidemics in New York City: A call to action to confront a public health, economic and moral threat to New York City's future. City University of New York Campaign Against Diabetes, 2007. www.phanyc.org/pdfs/2008unhealthyfoodreport.pdf
  • Dinour L, Fuentes L, Freudenberg N. Reversing obesity in New York City An Action Plan for Reducng the Promotion and Accessibility of Unhealthy Food. Public Health Association of New York City, 2008. www.phanyc.org/pdfs/diabetes_prevention_report.pdf

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Education

  • BS, Hunter College
  • Masters in Public Health, Columbia University
  • Doctor of Public Health , Columbia University