Jennifer Pomeranz
Jennifer L Pomeranz
Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
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Professional overview
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Professor Jennifer Pomeranz is a public health lawyer who researches policy and legal options to address the food environment, obesity, products that cause public harm, and social injustice that lead to health disparities.
Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Professor Pomeranz was an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health at Temple University and in the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple. She was previously the Director of Legal Initiatives at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. She has also authored numerous peer-reviewed and law review journal articles and a book, Food Law for Public Health, published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
Professor Pomeranz leads the Public Health Policy Research Lab and regularly teaches Public Health Law and Food Policy for Public Health.
"Policy is so important because it is the most effective way to influence public health. I got into public health to change the world -- to improve health and address inequities.”
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Education
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BA, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIJD, Juris Doctorate, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NYMPH, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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Areas of research and study
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Diet-related diseaseProducts that cause harmPublic Health LawPublic Health PolicySocial injustices that create health disparities
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Publications
Publications
Abortion disclosure laws and the first amendment : The broader public health implications of the supreme Court's becerra decision
Failed retrieving data.Combatting and Preventing Preemption : A Strategic Action Model
Failed retrieving data.Federal Regulation of Infant and Toddler Food and Drink Marketing and Labeling
Failed retrieving data.Harnessing the Power of Food Labels for Public Health
Failed retrieving data.Key Drivers of State Preemption of Food, Nutrition, and Agriculture Policy : A Thematic Content Analysis of Public Testimony
Failed retrieving data.Legal Feasibility of US Government Policies to Reduce Cancer Risk by Reducing Intake of Processed Meat
Failed retrieving data.Local policymakers’ new role : Preventing preemption
Failed retrieving data.Mandating front-of-package food labels in the U.S. – What are the First Amendment obstacles?
Failed retrieving data.State Preemption : Threat to Democracy, Essential Regulation, and Public Health
Failed retrieving data.State Preemption of Food and Nutrition Policies and Litigation : Undermining Government's Role in Public Health
Failed retrieving data.Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in the USA, state preemption of local efforts
Failed retrieving data.Supplemental nutrition assistance program data : Why disclosure is needed
Failed retrieving data.Adoption and Design of Emerging Dietary Policies to Improve Cardiometabolic Health in the US
Failed retrieving data.Can the Government Require Health Warnings on Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Advertisements?
Failed retrieving data.Challenging and preventing policies that prohibit local civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people
Failed retrieving data.Effective National Menu Labeling Requires Accuracy and Enforcement
Failed retrieving data.Legal and Administrative Feasibility of a Federal Junk Food and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax to Improve Diet
Failed retrieving data.Pomeranz et al. respond
Failed retrieving data.Reductions in national cardiometabolic mortality achievable by food price changes according to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility and participation
Failed retrieving data.Toddler drinks, formulas, and milks: Labeling practices and policy implications
Failed retrieving data.Consolidated state political party control and the enactment of obesity-related policies in the United States
Failed retrieving data.Severe deprivations of education should be considered states of emergency
Failed retrieving data.State preemption : A significant and quiet threat to public health in the United States
Failed retrieving data.Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Reform:: Retail Requirements, Eligible Foods
Failed retrieving data.The Potential for Federal Preemption of State and Local Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes
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