Darcy Freedman, PhD, MPH

Darcy Freedman, PhD, MPH
Swetland Professor in Environmental Health Sciences
Director, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health
Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences 
Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine

An applied population health scientist and community psychologist, Dr. Darcy A. Freedman is nationally recognized for her contributions to community nutrition. She brings a transdisciplinary background to her research agenda, developing and evaluating policy and systems-level interventions to promote health equity by addressing the complex interplay between public health and the environment. Since joining Case Western Reserve University in 2013, she has successfully nurtured multiple community-university research partnerships focused on the intersection between food systems and environmental health equity. Dr. Freedman’s technology, FM Tracks, is now the gold-standard method used nationally to evaluate healthy food incentive programming. She regularly advises and testifies to inform federal, state, and local nutrition policy.