Nicholas Freudenberg

He served as Faculty Director of Healthy CUNY (https://www.healthycuny.org/), a university-wide initiative to promote student health and support academic success, and as Senior Faculty Fellow and co-founder of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute (www.cunyurbanfoodpolicy.org). His research has explored the impact of food and social policies on urban food environments and health inequalities; strategies to extend the health, social, and economic benefits of higher education to students from low-income, Black, Latino, and immigrant communities; and public health approaches to counter the harmful effects of commercial determinants of health. Freudenberg is the author of At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health (Oxford, 2021) and Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health (Oxford, 2014 and 2016). He was the founding director of the CUNY School of Public Health’s Doctor of Public Health program and, for more than 35 years, has worked to plan, implement, and evaluate health policies and programs aimed at improving living conditions and reducing health inequalities in low-income communities in New York City and beyond.