Emily Ardolino, A.B.
Emily Ardolino received a Bachelors of Arts degree from Brown University in Anthropology with a focus on public health. She currently works as a researcher in occupational health and corporate ethics at Never Again Consulting.
Katherine A. Campbell, J.D., M.P.H.
Katherine Campbell is a Staff Attorney with the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, D.C. www.cspinet.org
Maurie J. Cohen, Ph.D.
Maurie Cohen is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Environmental Policy Studies at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, New Jersey.
Aaron Comrov
Aaron Comrov was a student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, New Jersey at the time the article reprinted here was initially published.
Charlie Cray, B.A.
Charlie Cray is with the Center for Corporate Policy in Washington, DC. He is the author of numerous reports about corporate reform and co-author of the book, The People's Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy.
David Egilman, M.D., M.P.H.
David Egilman is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health at Brown University. He teaches, and precepts residents in the Family Medicine Department. He has published on issues of health and safety, including the corporate corruption of science in the asbestos, beryllium, pharmaceutical, and other industries, and served as an expert witness at the request of injured patients and corporate defendants in tort and other litigation. He founded Global Health through Education Training and Service (GHETS) a non-profit that provides grants and technical assistance to primary care oriented medical and nursing schools in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Diane Farsetta, Ph.D.
Diane is the Senior Researcher at the Center for Media & Democracy (CMD) in Madison, Wisconsin. Diane co-authored CMD's three reports on sponsored public relations videos in newscasts, which led to the Federal Communications Commission's first-ever investigation of the matter. She's contributed chapters to the two-volume academic review "Battleground: The Media" and the Project Censored books "Censored 2007" and "Censored 2008." In addition to CMD, Diane's reporting has been published by The Progressive and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazines and numerous websites. She has a background is in radio reporting and scientific research.
Nicholas Freudenberg, Dr.P.H.
Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Director of the Doctor of Public Health Program at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is also founder and director of Corporations and Health Watch www.corporationsandhealth.org
, a resource for researchers, activists and public health professionals seeking to reduce health damaging corporate practices.
Brian Hoffner
Brian Hoffner was a student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, New Jersey at the time the article reprinted here was initially published.
Stephen Gardner, J.D.
Steve is Director of Litigation for the Washington, DC-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, www.cspinet.org
. He served as Counsel to the National Consumer Law Center, Assistant Dean of Clinical Education and Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University School of Law, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas, Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York, Students Attorney at the University of Texas, and a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Central Texas. He authored or co-authored The Practice of Consumer Law, Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices, and Consumer Class Actions.
Claudia Horwitz
Claudia Horwitz is Director of Stone Circles in Mabane, North Carolina, an organization which supports activists in deepening their capacity for social transformation through fellowships, workshops and trainings in connecting the inner realm of spirit with the outer realm of social change work. www.stonecircles.org/
Rene Jahiel, M.D., Ph.D.
Rene Jahiel, MD, PhD (microbiology). Formerly research professor of medicine at NYU. Created NYC Pre-Natal Diagnostic Lab in 1970s. Co-writer, Dellums bill for a National Health System in 1970s-80s. Chair, Committee on Health Services Research at American Public Health Association (APHA) 1979-1986. Founding member and past chair of APHA Disability Forum. Research in homelessness, disability, and social epidemiology 1990s-present. Currently President of Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes (ELDHE),a not-for-profit international think tank in public health, and chair of its study group on industrial diseases; adjunct teaching faculty at the University of Connecticut Graduate Program in Public Health.
Jane Lethbridge, M.Sc., M.A.
Jane Lethbridge is Principal Lecturer/ MPA Programme Leader in the Business School and a researcher at the Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU), University of Greenwich, London, UK. Her main research interests are the global commercialisation of health and social care, European social dialogue, trade union responses to neo-liberal policies and involving public sector workers in improving public services. She has worked with Public Services International (PSI) and the European Federation of Public Services (EPSU) since 2001.
Ruth E. Malone, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN
Ruth Malone is Professor of nursing and health policy and Vice Chair, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. She received the American Legacy Foundation's Sybil Jacobs Award for tobacco industry documents research, and she has been a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar. She served as a tobacco industry documents consultant to the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Department of Justice in its fraud and racketeering civil case against the tobacco industry, and a WHO expert panel member on the tobacco industry. She is editor of the BMJ international journal Tobacco Control.
Mari Margil, M.P.P.
Mari Margil is the Associate Director for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. She is involved with campaign and organizational strategy, outreach, media, and leads the organization's fundraising efforts. In 2008, she traveled to Ecuador where she assisted the country's Constitutional Assembly on the re-writing of their Constitution. Prior to joining the Legal Defense Fund, Mari was the Director of Corporate Transformation for Corporate Ethics International, conducting corporate accountability campaigns targeting multinational "big box" retailers. She received her Master's degree in Public Policy and Urban Planning from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Thomas E. Mertes, M.A., ABD
Tom Mertes is the administrator of Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA and teaches US history courses for UCLA Extension. He is the editor of, and a contributor to, A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible? (Verso 2004) which grew out of his work as an editor for the New Left Review.
Judith A. Pojda, Ph.D.
Judith Pojda holds a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Communications from Cornell University and a B.S. in Food Science. She has worked on hunger issues overseas through agencies such as the United Nations, Catholic Relief Services and the U.S.Peace Corps. As a recipient of an undergraduate travel scholarship in 1986, Judith researched global food distribution policies. She believes that there must be a strong public nutrition component to the discipline of public health, and that the examination of nutritional consequences of corporate agribusiness influences are key to alleviating hunger. She has coordinated the Agribusiness Accountability Initiative since 2006.
Leon S. Robertson, Ph.D.
Leon S. Robertson is retired. During 1978-1998 he occupied various positions in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University. He previously served on the faculties of Harvard University Medical School and Wake Forest University.
He was also Senior Behavioral Scientist in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Dr. Robertson is coauthor of 6 books and the sole author of 6, as well as 148 articles in the scientific literature
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His latest book is Injury Epidemiology, 3rd Edition, 2007 published by Oxford University Press.
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey leads programs at Stone Circles, a cross-cultural, multiracial community in Mabane, North Carolina for social justice and a sustainable and sacred relationship with the natural world. www.stonecircles.org/
Shelley K. White, M.P.H., O.T.R.
Shelley White is a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and holds a Masters degree in International Public Health. She recently served as Policy Analyst at the University of Southern Maine and consultant with the Maine Department of Health and Human Services on HIV/AIDS policy and programming. She has also consulted with the international non-profit organization, Free the Children, on international development and organizational policy. Shelley studies and has published on such topics as global HIV/AIDS and public health, globalization and political economy, human rights, development, and social change.
Donald W. Zeigler, Ph.D.
Donald W. Zeigler is Director, Long Range Health Care Trends, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL. Don was lead author of the 2005 World Medical Association "Statement on Reducing the Global Impact of Alcohol on Health and Society" and published "International Trade Agreements Challenge Tobacco and Alcohol Control Policies" (Drug and Alcohol Review, 2006) and "The Alcohol Industry and Trade Agreements: A Preliminary Assessment" (Addiction, 2009, Supplement 1. He serves on the Governing Council and the Trade and Health Forum of the American Public Association and the Advisory Board of the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health.
Raymundo D. Rovillos, Ph.D.
Raymundo Rovillos is Dean of the College of Social Science and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Philippines, Baguio.
Lainie Rutkow, J.D., M.P.H.
Lainie Rutkow is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.
Stephen P. Taret, J.D., MPH
Stephen Taret is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, and the Director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.
