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55
Citations
12478
World Ranking
2017
National Ranking
969

Overview

Nicholas Freudenberg is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas spanning Health Professions and Business, Management and Accounting, with significant work published on topics related to global public health and organizational behavior.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Health Professions
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Subfields of study associated with their work are:

  • General Health Professions
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Food Science

Freudenberg's research covers diverse topics, including:

  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with the commercial determinants of health, notably contributing to the following papers:

  • Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health (2023, The Lancet)
  • Commercial determinants of health: future directions (2023, The Lancet)
  • Measuring the Commercial Determinants of Health and Disease: A Proposed Framework (2021, International Journal of Health Services)
  • Public Health Roles in Addressing Commercial Determinants of Health (2022, Annual Review of Public Health)
  • The Racialized Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages: Perspectives and Potential Remedies (2022, The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics)

Freudenberg has frequently collaborated with several researchers throughout their career. Notable co-authors include:

  • Kelley Lee
  • Sharon Friel
  • Robert Marten
  • Raquel Burgess
  • Yusuf Ransome

Their work has been published across multiple venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • The Lancet
  • Global Health Promotion
  • Milbank Quarterly
  • International Journal of Health Services
  • Annual Review of Public Health

Best Publications

  • Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue

    Nicholas Freudenberg;Jessica Ruglis

  • Peer Reviewed: Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health Issue

    Nicholas Freudenberg;Jessica Ruglis

  • Urban as a determinant of health

    David Vlahov;Nicholas Freudenberg;Fernando Proietti;Danielle C. Ompad

  • Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health

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  • Coming Home From Jail: The Social and Health Consequences of Community Reentry for Women, Male Adolescents, and Their Families and Communities

    Nicholas Freudenberg;Jessie Daniels;Martha Crum;Tiffany Perkins

  • Jails, prisons, and the health of urban populations: a review of the impact of the correctional system on community health.

    Nicholas Freudenberg

  • Cities and population health.

    Sandro Galea;Nicholas Freudenberg;David Vlahov;David Vlahov

  • Not in our backyards: The grassroots environmental movement

    Nicholas Freudenberg;Carol Steinsapir

  • Nowhere to go: How stigma limits the options of female drug users after release from jail

    Juliana van Olphen;Michele J Eliason;Nicholas Freudenberg;Marilyn Barnes

  • “Anything Can Happen With Police Around”: Urban Youth Evaluate Strategies of Surveillance in Public Places

    Michelle Fine;Nicholas Freudenberg;Yasser Payne;Tiffany Perkins

  • Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health

    Nicholas Freudenberg

  • Strengthening Individual and Community Capacity to Prevent Disease and Promote Health: In Search of Relevant Theories and Principles

    Nicholas Freudenberg;Eugenia Eng;Brian Flay;Guy Parcel

  • Adverse Effects of US Jail and Prison Policies on the Health and Well-Being of Women of Color

    Nicholas Freudenberg

  • Addressing urban health in Detroit, New York City, and Seattle through community-based participatory research partnerships.

    Marilyn M. Metzler;Donna L. Higgins;Carolyn G. Beeker;Nicholas Freudenberg

  • Healthy Housing: A Structured Review of Published Evaluations of US Interventions to Improve Health by Modifying Housing in the United States, 1990–2001

    Susan C. Saegert;Susan Klitzman;Nicholas Freudenberg;Jana Cooperman-Mroczek

  • Commercial determinants of health: future directions

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  • College Students and SNAP: The New Face of Food Insecurity in the United States.

    Nicholas Freudenberg;Sara Goldrick-Rab;Janet Poppendieck

  • Evaluation of 37 AIDS Prevention Projects: Successful Approaches and Barriers to Program Effectiveness

    Nancy K. Janz;Marc A. Zimmerman;Patricia A. Wren;Barbara A. Israel

  • Beyond urban penalty and urban sprawl: Back to living conditions as the focus of urban health

    Nicholas Freudenberg;Sandro Galea;David Vlahov

  • Reintegrating women leaving jail into urban communities: A description of a model program

    Beth E. Richie;Nicholas Freudenberg;Joanne Page

  • Public Health Advocacy to Change Corporate Practices: Implications for Health Education Practice and Research

    Nicholas Freudenberg

  • Evidence, Power, and Policy Change in Community-Based Participatory Research

    Nicholas Freudenberg;Emma K. Tsui

  • The Impact of Bronchial Asthma on School Attendance and Performance

    Nicholas Freudenberg;Charles H. Feldman;Noreen M. Clark;E. Joel Millman

  • SPECIAL FEATURE: CONTINUITY OF CARE FROM CORRECTIONS TO COMMUNITY Jails, Prisons, and the Health of Urban Populations: A Review of the Impact of the Correctional System on Community Health

    Nicholas Freudenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Olden
Kenneth Olden National Institutes of Health
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Benjamin Hawkins
Benjamin Hawkins University of Cambridge
Danielle C. Ompad
Danielle C. Ompad New York University
Leslie London
Leslie London University of Cape Town
Ronald Labonté
Ronald Labonté University of Ottawa
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Kelley Lee
Kelley Lee Simon Fraser University
Fran Baum
Fran Baum University of Adelaide
Marc A. Zimmerman
Marc A. Zimmerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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