Her research focuses on public health law and policy. She is especially interested in policy and legal options to address the food environment, obesity, food marketing to children, health disparities, and products that cause public harm. Ms. Pomeranz authored over forty peer-reviewed and law review journal articles and a book, Food Law for Public Health, published by Oxford University Press. Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Ms. Pomeranz was the Director of Legal Initiatives at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. Ms. Pomeranz is the Policy Chair of the Law Section of the American Public Health Association. She earned her Juris Doctorate from Cornell Law School and her Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.​