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

A comprehensive strategy to overhaul FDA authority for misleading food labels.

Assessing the impact of federal and state preemption in public health: A framework for decision makers

Energy drinks: An emerging public health hazard for youth

Local governments and the food system: innovative approaches to public health law and policy

New developments in the law for obesity discrimination protection

Over-the-counter and out-of-control: Legal strategies to protect youths from abusing products for weight control

Taxing food and beverage products: a public health perspective and a new strategy for prevention

Advanced policy options to regulate sugar-sweetened beverages to support public health

Extending the fantasy in the supermarket: where unhealthy food promotions meet children and how the government can intervene

Legal Implications: Regulating Sales and Marketing

No need to break new ground: a response to the Supreme Court’s threat to overhaul the commercial speech doctrine.

Pomeranz responds

Portion sizes and beyond - Government's legal authority to regulate food-industry practices

The bittersweet truth about sugar labeling regulations: They are achievable and overdue

The wheels on the bus go "buy buy buy": School bus advertising laws

Advancing public health obesity policy through state attorneys general

Federal Trade Commission's authority to regulate marketing to children: deceptive vs. unfair rulemaking.

Front-of-package food and beverage labeling: New directions for research and regulation

The unique authority of state and local health departments to address obesity

Television food marketing to children revisited: The federal trade commission has the constitutional and statutory authority to regulate

The Role of United States Law to Prevent and Control Childhood Obesity

A crisis in the marketplace: How food marketing contributes to childhood obesity and what can be done

Assessing laws and legal authorities for obesity prevention and control

Compelled speech under the commercial speech doctrine: the case of menu label laws

Improving laws and legal authorities for obesity prevention and control