Darcy Freedman

Roles and Affiliations:

Dr. Darcy Freedman holds the Mary Ann Swetland Professorship of Environmental Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine. She directs the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health and serves as core faculty at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods. Her roles extend to secondary faculty positions in the Division of General Medical Sciences and the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.

Education:

• PhD in Community Research and Action, Vanderbilt University (2008)
• M.P.H. in Behavioral Sciences, Emory University (2000)
• B.A. in Zoology, Miami University (1998)

Research Focus:

Her work centers on community-level interventions to promote health equity through policy and systems changes. Key areas include environmental health equity, community-engaged research, chronic disease prevention, and food security. Dr. Freedman developed FM Tracks, a gold-standard tool for evaluating healthy food incentive programs.

Grants:

• National Institute of Drug Abuse: Optimizing Healing in Ohio Communities
• USDA: Harvesting Health in the Heartland
• National Institutes of Health: Cleveland Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative

Labs and Teams:

Lead the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health and collaborate with the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods to advance community-driven solutions for health disparities.