Nick Freudenberg Distinguished Professor and DPH Director	Office: BC1005W Email: nfreuden@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212 481-4363 Fax: 212 481-5260

Professional Interests:
Public health policy, urban health, interdisciplinary urban health research
For more than 25 years, have developed implemented and evaluated interventions to promote health and prevent disease in low income communities in New York City. Since 1988 has conducted research in New York City jails to assist people returning from jail to reduce their risk from HIV and substance use and to reenter their communities successfully. Has also worked with advocacy groups and city agencies to develop jail reentry policies that improve public safety and community health. Widely published on public health policy, AIDS prevention, violence and community health interventions. Has studied the impact of city living on population health and with David Vlahov ad Sandro Galea was editor of Cities and Population Health. Currently looking at how corporate practices in the alcohol, automobile, food, firearm, pharmaceutical and tobacco industries affect morbidity and mortality and how public health advocacy campaigns have altered health damaging corporate practices. Work has been supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Open Society Institute and the National Institute for Drug Abuse, the National Institute of General medical Sciences and the American Legacy Foundation.

President of the Public Health Association of New York City (2006-2008) and helped to develop its Agenda for a Healthy New York project. Member of the Advisory Committee of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and co-chair of the City University of New York Urban Health Initiative, a faculty-led effort to bring together faculty, staff and students within CUNY who have an interest in urban health research, teaching or practice

Primary Teaching Areas:
Urban Health Promotions, Public Health Policy, Topics in Urban Health

Selected Publications:
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 Jan 31.
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://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/95/10/1725
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/reprint/32/3/298

Education:
Bachelor of Science, Hunter College, 1975
MPH, Columbia University, 1977
PhD, Columbia University, 1979