S9E1: Nicholas Freudenberg

Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health Emeritus at the CUNY School of Public Health.  Freudenberg has written about corprorate influences on health since 2008 and is the author of  Lethal but Legal Corporations, Consumption and Protecting Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2014), At What Cost Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health (Oxford University Press, 2021), and the forthcoming Fighting for New York Health and Social Justice Activism since the 1960s (Columbia University Press, September 2026).  Freudenberg is a member of the Editorial Advisory Group for the World Health Organization’s Report on the Global Status of Commercial Determinants of Health, due to be released in 2026,  and a co-author of the 2023 Lancet series on commercial determinants of health.   At CUNY, Freudenberg has served as  founder and director of the Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health,  CUNY CARES (Comprehensive  Access to  Essential  Resources and Services), the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, Health LINK , a reentry program for people leaving Rikers Island to return to their communities, and the CUNY School of Public Health doctoral program.