Local Health and Global Profits

LHGP researcher Dr Amber van den Akker and deputy director Dr Nason Maani discuss the risks of giving health-harming industries a seat at the policy-making table.

Professor Anna Gilmore joins global experts to explore how evidence can drive climate-health action and build resilient, equitable health systems.

This webinar explores the introduction of healthier advertising policies across Councils in the UK, and the evidence which supports their implementation as an effective public health intervention.

Health researchers including Local Health and Global Profits Deputy Director Dr Nason Maani uncover the role of the arms trade in health, and call for more scrutiny of its health-harming activities and its unhealthy relationship with governments.

As the body of evidence demonstrating air pollutions’ detrimental effects on climate and health grows, this webinar explores the latest data, an evaluation of a local level case study, and practice sharing from Southwark Council public health.

Abstract submission for Prevention Research 26, 4-5 March. Abstracts are invited from all corners of the prevention research community, for oral/poster presentations, Symposia and Workshops.

Professor Anna Gilmore features in an episode of the leading public health podcast ‘Why Should I Trust You?’ to discuss how corporations harm public health.

Chris Booth, Policy & Engagement Executive at Bite Back, writes a guest blog for PHI UK following the launch of Bite Back's investigation into how food and drink companies are selling and marketing to children and young people through schools.

Local Health and Global Profits researchers warn that the health of mothers and children is being put at risk by the commercial activities of large multinational corporations.

Researchers including Local Health and Global Profits director Dr Nason Maani studied social media campaigns by a US private health industry lobby group and found striking similarities to tactics used by unhealthy commodity industry groups.

Local Health and Global Profits took part in this webinar, hosted by the Association of Directors of Public Health exploring town planning, the National Planning Policy Framework, and what this means for local health.

Public health experts from the Local Health and Global Profits research consortium welcome focus on prevention in new 10-Year Health Plan but caution that bold reforms are needed to address structural determinants of poor health.