Jennifer Pomeranz

Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management

Professional overview

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.”

Education

BA, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

JD, Juris Doctorate, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY

MPH, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Areas of research and study

Diet-related disease

Products that cause harm

Public Health Law

Public Health Policy

Social injustices that create health disparities

Publications

Publications

State Preemption of Consumer Merchandise and Beverage Containers: New Strategy to Preempt Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Policies?

The Impact of Toddler Milk Claims on Beliefs and Misperceptions: A Randomized Experiment with Parents of Young Children

United States: Protecting Commercial Speech under the First Amendment

Whole-grain food intake among US adults, based on different definitions of whole-grain foods, NHANES 2003–2018

Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Nutrition Facts Added-Sugar Labeling and Obesity-Associated Cancer Rates in the US

Effect of reducing ultraprocessed food consumption on obesity among US children and adolescents aged 7-18 years: Evidence from a simulation model

Firearm Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws and Preemption: New Developments and Outstanding Issues, 50 States, 2020

Governmental actions to address COVID-19 misinformation

Identifying novel predictors of state legislative action to address obesity

Misperceptions about added sugar, non-nutritive sweeteners and juice in popular children's drinks: Experimental and cross-sectional study with U.S. parents of young children (1-5 years)

State Gun-Control, Gun-Rights, and Preemptive Firearm-Related Laws Across 50 US States for 2009–2018

State Preemption: An Emerging Threat to Local Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation

Trends in Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods among US Youths Aged 2-19 Years, 1999-2018

Anticipating and defeating preemption across public health

Child Social Media Influencers and Unhealthy Food Product Placement

Children's Fruit "Juice" Drinks and FDA Regulations: Opportunities to Increase Transparency and Support Public Health

Consumer confusion about wholegrain content and healthfulness in product labels: A discrete choice experiment and comprehension assessment

Consumer confusion about wholegrain content and healthfulness in product labels: Reply

Geographic and Longitudinal Trends in Media Framing of Obesity in the United States

Infant formula and toddler milk marketing and caregiver's provision to young children

Infant formula and toddler milk marketing: Opportunities to address harmful practices and improve young children's diets

Legal Feasibility and Implementation of Federal Strategies for a National Retail-Based Fruit and Vegetable Subsidy Program in the United States

Marketing to children in supermarkets: An opportunity for public policy to improve children’s diets

State Legislative Strategies to Pass, Enhance, and Obscure Preemption of Local Public Health Policy-Making

Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Policies in the Broader Legal Context: Health and Safety Warning Laws and the First Amendment