Cities and the Health of the Public

Contributors

345 Contributors About the Editors Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Social Psychology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His recent research has focused on the health of incarcerated populations , and he has written or edited previous books on citizen action for environmental health and prevention of HIV infection. Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, is a social epidemiologist and physician. He is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He has published widely on the social determinants of health, substance abuse and mental health, and urban health. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Urban Health. David Vlahov, PhD, is an infectious disease epidemiologist and the Director of the Center for Urban Epidemiological Studies at the NewYork Academy of Medicine. He is also a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Columbia University School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Urban Health. About the Authors Dennis P Andrulis, PhD, MPH, is a Professor at the Drexel University School of Public Health and the Director of the Center for Health Equalities, Philadelphia. 346 Cities and the Health of the Public Michaeline Bresnahan, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. Adam Coutts, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Magdalene College, U.K. Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, is the Director of the National Center for Environmental Health /Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Psychiatry at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City and is at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. Emily Gibble is the Coordinator of the International Society for Urban Health, based at the New York Academy of Medicine, New York City. Daniel E Kass, MSPH, is the Director of the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program in the Bureau of Environmental Disease Prevention at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. David Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology Public Health, and Medicine and the Director of Medical Studies in Public Health at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is also Director of the Yale Griffin Prevention Research Center, New Haven. Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Social Epidemiology in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. Dean G. Kilpatrick, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina and the Director of the National Crime Victims ’ Research and Treatment Center, Charleston, South Carolina. Susan Klitzman, DrPH, is an Associate Professor of Public Health (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences) and the Director of the Program in Urban Public Health at Hunter College, City University of New York. Thomas D. Matte, MD, MPH, is the Director of Research, Development, and Evaluation in the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Gordon McGranahan, PhD, is the Director of the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, London.. Contributors 347 David Rosner, PhD, is a Professor of History and Sociomedical Sciences and Director of the Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. Kenneth J. Ruggiero, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. David Satterthwaite, PhD, is a Senior Fellow of the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, London. Amy Schulz, PhD, is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Public Health and the Associate Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture , and Health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Tomika Stevens, JD, is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Drexel University . She currently works as an attorney in Washington, DC, where she is completing her dissertation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH, is a Professor in and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology , Columbia University Mailman...