BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

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NAME

 

       Nicholas Freudenberg

POSITION TITLE

 

 

EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

(if applicable)

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

  Columbia College, New York City

 

    1966-68 

     Political Science

  Hunter College, New York City 

     BS

     1975

     Community Health

  Columbia University School of Public Health, NY

     MPH

    1977

     Public Health

  Columbia University School of Public Health, NY

    DrPH

    1979

     Health Education

A.  Professional Experience

1977-1980         Project Director, Asthma Self-Management Project, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,

1980 -                 Adjunct Lecturer, Columbia University School of Public Health, Division of Health Care Administration

 

1987 – 1998        Executive Director, Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health

 

1979 -               Distinguished Professor, Program in Urban Public Health, Hunter College School of Health Sciences/City University of New York.

(1983 – 1990) Program Director, Community Health Education

(1989 -   )Professor

(1998 -   ) Director, Program in Urban Public Health

(2001-  )  Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, Department of Psychology, Environmental  and Social Psychology tracks

(2002-  )  Distinguished Professor, Public Health

Awards and Honors

Society for Public Health Education, National Student Essay Award, 1977

American Public Health Association, Early Career Recognition Award, 1985

Hunter College Distinguished Service Award, 1987

Hunter College Presidential Medal, 1993

Hunter College Alumni Hall of Fame, 1995

APHA, Public Health Education Section, Mayhew Derryberry Award for Contributions to Health Education Theory and Practice, 1994

AIDS and Adolescence Network of New York City, 1998, Tenth Anniversary Award

Best Paper of the Year, Health Education and Behavior, 1999

CUNY Distinguished Professor, 2002

 

B.  Selected Publications

Books and Chapters

 

Freudenberg N, Rogers M, Ritas C, Nerny M.  Policy Analysis and Advocacy: An Approach to Community-Based Participatory Research. In Methods for Conducting Community-Based Participatory Research in Public Health. B Israel et al, eds.  Jossey-Bass, in press

Freudenberg N, Klitzman S.  Teaching Urban Health in Handbook on Urban Health, D. Vlahov and S Galea, eds., Kluwer, in press.

Klitzman S, Kass D. and Freudenberg N. Coalition Building to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Case Study from New York City, in Community Organizing and Community Building for Health, Second Edition,  M Minkler, ed. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2005, pp. 314-328. 

Van Olphen, J, Freudenberg N, Galea S, Palermo AG, Ritas C.  Advocating policies to promote community reintegration of drug users leaving jail.  In M. Minkler and N. Wallerstein, eds, Community-Based Participatory Research for Health, San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2003, pp. 371-389.

Alcabes, P and Freudenberg N. Monitoring HIV Infection in Prisons, in P. Bellini, Editor, Responding to HIV Infection in Correctional Facilities in Eastern Europe, Guide prepared for Open Society Institute.

Freudenberg N. “Tuberculosis Control for Vulnerable Populations.” In Improving Tuberculosis Treatment and Control An Agenda for Behavioral, Social and Health Services Research.  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1995). (Later reprinted in Journal of American Thoracic Society).

Freudenberg N, Zimmerman M. AIDS Prevention in the Community: Lessons from the First Decade. (editor and first author of five chapters) 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).

Freudenberg N.  Training Health Educators for Social Change.In Health Promotion: A Resource Book. R. Anderson and I. Kickbusch (Eds.) Chichester, England: John Wiley (1988).

Peer-Reviewed

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications 
 
1:  Freudenberg N.  Community capacity for environmental health promotion: determinants and implications for practice. Health Educ Behav. 2004 Aug;31(4):472-90. 
2:  van Olphen J, Freudenberg N.  Harlem service providers' perceptions of the impact of municipal policies on their clients with substance use problems. J Urban Health. 2004 Jun;81(2):222-31. 
3:  Saegert SC, Klitzman S, Freudenberg N, Cooperman-Mroczek J, Nassar S. 
 Healthy housing: a structured review of published evaluations of US interventions to improve health by modifying housing in the United States, 1990-2001. Am J Public Health. 2003 Sep;93(9):1471-7. 
4:  Metzler MM, Higgins DL, Beeker CG, Freudenberg N, Lantz PM, Senturia KD, Eisinger AA, Viruell-Fuentes EA, Gheisar B, Palermo AG, Softley D.   Addressing urban health in Detroit, New York City, and Seattle through community-based participatory research partnerships. Am J Public Health. 2003 May;93(5):803-11. 
5:  Klitzman S, Freudenberg N.  Implications of the World Trade Center attack for the public health and health care infrastructures. Am J Public Health. 2003 Mar;93(3):400-6. 

6: Fine M, Freudenberg N. et al “Anything can happen with police around:” Urban youth evaluate strategies of surveillance in public places.  Journal of Social Issues, 2003. 59 (1): 141-158.

7: Freudenberg N, Community health services for returning jail and prison inmates. Journal of Correctional Health Care, 2003. 10(3): p. xx-yy.

8:  Freudenberg N.  Adverse effects of US jail and prison policies on the health and well-being of women of color. Am J Public Health. 2002 Dec;92(12):1895-9.
9:  Galea S, Factor SH, Bonner S, Foley M, Freudenberg N, Latka M, Palermo AG, Vlahov D.  Collaboration among community members, local health service providers, and researchers in an urban research center in Harlem, New York. Public Health Rep. 2001 Nov-Dec;116(6):530-9. 
10:  Galea S, Ahern J, Fuller C, Freudenberg N, Vlahov D.  Needle exchange programs and experience of violence in an inner city neighborhood. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2001 Nov 1;28(3):282-8. 
11:  Freudenberg N.  Case history of the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies in New York City. J Urban Health. 2001 Sep;78(3):508-18. 
12:  Richie BE, Freudenberg N, Page J.  Reintegrating women leaving jail into urban communities: a description of a model program. J Urban Health. 2001 Jun;78(2):290-303. 
13:  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 Jun;78(2):214-35.
14:  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. 
15:  Freudenberg N, Silver D, Carmona JM, Kass D, Lancaster B, Speers M.  Health promotion in the city: a structured review of the literature on interventions to prevent heart disease, substance abuse, violence and HIV infection in US metropolitan areas, 1980-1995. J Urban Health. 2000 Sep;77(3):443-57. 
16:  Freudenberg N.  Health promotion in the city: a review of current practice and future prospects in the United States. Annu Rev Public Health. 2000;21:473-503. 
17:  Freudenberg N.  Time for a national agenda to improve the health of urban populations. Am J Public Health. 2000 Jun;90(6):837-40. 

18:  Motta-Moss A, Freudenberg N, et al.  The Fortune Society’s Latino Discharge Planning: A model of  comprehensive care for HIV-Positive ex-Offenders.  Drugs and Society 2000;16:123-144.

19:  Freudenberg N, Roberts L, Richie BE, Taylor RT, McGillicuddy K, Greene MB. 
 Coming up in the boogie down: the role of violence in the lives of adolescents
in the South Bronx.Health Educ Behav. 1999 Dec;26(6):788-805. 
20:  Freudenberg N.  Community-based health education for urban populations: an overview. Health Educ Behav. 1998 Feb;25(1):11-23. 

21:  Freudenberg N, I. Wilets, M.B. Greene, B. Richie.  Linking women in jail to community services: factors associated with rearrest and retention of drug-using women following release from jail. Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association. 1998; 53:89-93.

22:  Freudenberg  N,  Manoncourt E. Urban health promotion: current practices and new directions. Health Education and Behavior. 1998; 25(2): 138-145.

23: Wallerstein N, Freudenberg N Linking health promotion and social justice: a rationale and two case stories Health Education Research 13 (3): 451-457 SEP 1998
24:Guttmacher S, Lieberman L, Ward D, Freudenberg N, Radosh A, Des Jarlais D. 
Condom availability in New York City public high schools: relationships to condom use and sexual behavior. Am J Public Health. 1997 Sep;87(9):1427-33. 
25: Haignere CS, Freudenberg N, Silver DR, Maslanka H, Kelley JT.  One method for assessing HIV/AIDS peer-education programs. J Adolesc Health. 1997 Aug;21(2):76-9. 
 
Other Publications 
Freudenberg N.  Health education's new frontier in addressing corporate influences on health:an interview with Nicholas Freudenberg.Health Promot Pract. 2004;5(3):237-40. 
Freudenberg N. Book review: Dawning answers how the HIV/AIDS epidemic has helped to strengthen public health. Aids Education and Prevention 2003; 15 (6): 581-581 
Freudenberg N.   Book Review Health and culture: Beyond the western paradigm.  Health Education and Research 2000  15(4): 508-510 
Freudenberg N.  Book Review . Health and human rights: A reader. Health Education and Research 2000;  15 (4): 508-510.  

C.  Selected Recent Research

 

Principal Investigator, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, CUNY Transdisciplinary Urban Health Research Collaborative, K07 GM72947 , 2004- 2008.

 

Principal Investigator  American Legacy Foundation, Framing Public Health Advocacy to Change Corporate Practices, 2004-2005. 

 

Principal Investigator, National Institute of Drug Abuse. Impact of an  HIV Intervention for Adolescent Males Leaving Jail, ,  RO 1 DA14725  4/05/2002-3/31/2006.

 

Principal Investigator, Open Society Institute, Criminal Justice Initiative, Community Reintegration of Inmates Leaving New York City Jails: A Policy Analysis, January 1, 2002-December 31,2003.

 

Co- Investigator.  An Evaluation of New York City Department of Health’s HIV Prevention Case Management Initiative for Injecting Drug Users and their Partners, New York City Department of Health, 1999-2004.

Co-Investigator. Development of an HIV Prevention Intervention for Incarcerated Men who have Sex with Men.  New York City Department of Health, 2001-2002.

 

Principal Investigator, Health Link, Development of a New Model of Services for Incarcerated Drug Using Women and Adolescents, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1992-2001

 

Co-Investigator, Understanding and Reducing the Structural Determinants of Substance Abuse in Harlem.  Center for Urban Epidemiological Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999-2004,

 

Co-Principal Investigator, (with Susan Saegert, PI, Psychology, CUNY Grade Center and Susan Klitzman (Environmental Health, Hunter).  Housing, health and social inequality: Developing a research agenda.  CUNY Faculty Research Award, 2000-2002,

 

Co-Principal Investigator, An Evaluation of the New York City Beacon After-school Program, Annie E. Casey Foundation and the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, 1997-2000.

 

Co-Principal Investigator (with Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center, Psychology), Youth Perceptions of Interactions with New York City Police, Helenia Fund , 2000-2001,