Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.  For the last 10 years, he has studied the global and national impact of the business and political practices of the tobacco, automobile, alcohol, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and firearms industries.  His 2014 book Lethal but Legal Corporations, Consumption and Protecting Public Health(Oxford University Press) compared the strategies these business sectors use to advance their interests and the role of health professionals, governments and social movements in limiting the harmful consequences of  corporate business practices.  Freudenberg has also worked with youth and community organizations, churches, and  jails to create and evaluate interventions to protect young people from community and family violence.  He has published more than 120 scientific publications and his work has been supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the US Centers for Disease Control, the Open Society institute and others.