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Profile: Phyllis Freeman Phyllis Freeman is a Professor Emerita in the College of Public and Community Service, Senior Fellow in the Center for Social Policy of the John Jay McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, and on the faculty of the Public Policy Ph.D. program, University of Massachusetts Boston. She specializes in law, public policy, and public health. She served as Counsel to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the US House of Representatives (1982-86), was a Scholar-in-Residence at the US Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences (1986-87), and has worked with the Pan American Health Organization, the UN Task Force for Child Survival, and the Fogarty International Center at the US National Institutes of Health. She served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Infectious Diseases of CDC and serves now on the Board of Advisors for the Massachusetts Biological Laboratories and on the Editorial Board of Salud Publica (national public health journal of Mexico). During the 1992-93 academic year, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Mexico’s Academy of Medicine and National Institute of Public Health. She has written extensively about public health policy domestically and internationally. |