Corporations and Health Watch Research Staff
Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH. Dr. Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at Hunter College, City University of New York and Interim Director of the CUNY Doctoral Program in Public Health. He is founder and director of Corporations and Health Watch. Freudenberg has published four books and more than 100 articles and chapters on urban health, incarceration and health, public health policy and health and social justice. For the last thirty years, he has worked with and for a variety of community organizations, advocacy groups, government agencies and others to plan, implement and evaluate community health interventions in urban settings.
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH. Dr Galea is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr Galea is primarily interested in the social and economic production of health, particularly mental health and behavior in urban settings. He has an abiding interest in the health consequences of collectively experienced traumatic events. Dr Galea has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific journal articles, more than 25 chapters and commentaries and 4 books. His work has been primarily published in medical and public health journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Public Health, and Epidemiology. Dr Galea's work has been featured by several media outlets including The New York Times and NBC Dateline among others. He was named one of TIME magazine’s epidemiology “innovators” in 2006. He has received a number of grants for research from the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among others.
Jessie Daniels, PhD, MA. Dr. Daniels is a sociologist who currently works in Urban Public Health. She has a long-standing interest in the ways that race, class, gender and sexuality shape and change the articulation of one another in complex and varied ways, as well as an enduring commitment to social justice. These theoretical and political interests are reflected in a number of ongoing research projects. In her second book, tentatively titled Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield 2008), she examines how racist social movement discourse has changed (or hasn't changed) when it transitions to digital media forms, such as cloaked web sites. In a series of quantitative and qualitative articles, explores how racial pride and masculinity of young men of color affect the health and re-entry process from Rikers Island jail back to neighborhood communities in New York City. A third project examining urban features in racially and economically disparate neighborhoods involves young people in mapping these disparities using handheld computers. And, in a proposal for a fourth project about how LGBTQ homeless youth use digital media is currently under review at the MacArthur Foundation. Daniels teaches at CUNY-Hunter College and can be contacted via her website www.jessiedanielsphd.com.
Zoë Meleo-Erwin, MA, PhD Candidate. Ms. Meleo-Erwin is a third year PhD student at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her research interests include the reproductive and repressive effects of discourse around the obesity epidemic; similarities and differences between disability rights, transgender and fat activist movements and the social, bodily and psychological experiences of weight loss surgery patients. She is the author of "Reproductive Technology: Welcome to the Brave New World" in Redesigning Life: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering, Brian Tokar, ed. and "Fat Activism" in The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body, Victoria Pitts, ed. (forthcoming-Greenwood Press). Ms. Meleo-Erwin is a long time social justice activist and community organizer
