Our third keynote speaker for #UKPHS2026:
@spidermaani.bsky.social. Nason is an Associate Professor in Inequalities and Global Health Policy at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social ’s Global Health Policy Unit, in the School of Social and Political Science. ukpublichealthscience.org

Link to book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The accountability arc that reshaped climate risk is moving toward population health. The question is whether to get ahead of it or be caught beneath it. Its time we reckon with the cost of business as usual, and the case for health.

We're not making an anti-business argument. Commerce has lifted billions from poverty, generated essential medicines, funded public services. But the tools and framing we have aren't matched to the scale of what's now in front of us.

This is the conclusion of a growing body of research. It's also something that most business leaders, investors, and those who write relevant legislation haven't fully reckoned with. The conversation has been too confined to those already working in health, or those working against them.

The main drivers of preventable death and disease are no longer primarily biological, they are commercial. How businesses operate, what they produce, what they lobby for, and how they shape the environments in which the rest of us make decisions.

Sandro Galea and I have a new public-facing book now available for pre-order entitled "A Healthier Profit: The cost of business as usual and the case for health". Read about the book in our latest substack essay here: nasonmaani.substack.com/p/a-healthie...
A short 🧵 summarising it follows below

LHGP placement opportunity for public health speciality registrars LHGP placement opportunity for public health speciality registrars

We are offering a unique opportunity for #PublicHealth registrars to contribute to the @lhgp.bsky.social research consortium.

Full details here: www.phiuk.org/news/lhgp-na...

Deadline for applications: 9 am, Tuesday 28 April.

🎉 The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health is now online. Most downloaded article is "The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health" arevie.ws/4e9Npa8
@spidermaani.bsky.social @kristinakim.bsky.social May van Schalkwyk @markpetticrew.bsky.social @marcozenone.bsky.social

The Business of Health Misinformation - Local Health and Global Profits webinar YouTube video by Population Health Improvement UK

Missed our Business of #Health #Misinformation #webinar? Watch it now on YouTube. With 79% of the UK on social media and 22% getting health information there (rising to 40% among Gen Z), the stakes around misinformation have never been higher.

youtu.be/j3CRlSeHZio @spidermaani.bsky.social

Ideas about Ideas: The economics of attention Why the ideas we see are not all there is

New ideas about ideas essay with Sandro Galea, on the economics of attention, bias, and the need to see things for ourselves: open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...

New Money Power Health substack post! A short reflection on what the new coal extraction mascot Coalie tells us, and why these tactics exist precisely because public opinion still matters, children and young people are feared, and legitimacy is fragile. Link here: open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...

Absolutely critical research here

New research shows that spending less on tobacco, gambling and sweets is good for the UK economy - Sheffield Addictions Research Group A new study from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) has found that public health policies which reduce spending on harmful products can actually provide a significant boost to UK jobs and ...

New #research from authors including @lhgp.bsky.social members shows that spending less on #tobacco, #gambling and #sweets is good for the UK economy: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/news-media/n...

#PublicHealth #CDoH

👇Nason Maani (@spidermaani.bsky.social), Deputy Director of @lhgp.bsky.social, joins David Rowland, Director of @chpithinktank.bsky.social, to discuss the implications of the 'quiet but profound transformation of the #NHS'.

#PublicHealth #Podcast

Briefing note: The local and national impact of profit leakage in the outsourcing of NHS eye care services to the private sector. — Centre for Health and the Public Interest This report looks in detail at the impact at both local and national level of the very large profits leaking out of the NHS as a result of the outsourcing of NHS eye care to the private sector.

Including the work that we discuss in more detail on the podcast here in relation to eye care services: www.chpi.org.uk/reports/the-...

Centre for Health and the Public Interest

You can find out all about their work here: www.chpi.org.uk

Episode 18: UK NHS privatisation, health and the public interest with David Rowland

New Money Power Health podcast episode just out! I was thrilled to be joined by David Rowland from @chpithinktank.bsky.social where we discuss NHS privatisation and implications for transparency, accountability and health inequalities:
open.spotify.com/episode/1nGv...

Teaching, gratitude, and the start of term Stream of consciousness thoughts in the first week of teaching

New money power health substack reflecting on the start of teaching: open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...

Thanks so much for this, pain is such a good example. I look forward to using this article in teaching!

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Thanks for sharing. It reminds me a little of ideas we raised about deepening engagement with 'intersectionality' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ideas about ideas: The politics of recognition Which ideas get heard? Why?

New Ideas about Ideas essay "The politics of recognition". This explores the politics of recognition: how status, institutions, and power shape whose ideas are taken seriously. Written with @sandrogalea.skystack.xyz and cross-posted on The Healthiest Goldfish. open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...

Rare, and welcome positive messages in Nason's piece...I look forward too to more MPH podcasts in 2026

2025 in review: A Gangsters Paradise Some personal reflections and a note of hope

I published a slightly different piece on Money Power Health to close out 2025. I called it “2025 in review: A Gangster’s Paradise”, an attempt to name a world where raw power is increasingly visible and rewarded, harm is externalised, and moral ambition worn down. open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...

2025 in review: A Gangsters Paradise Some personal reflections and a note of hope

New substack article from me, which in spite of the title, does contain a note of hope (I hope!). Happy new year everyone nasonmaani.substack.com/p/2025-in-re...

Proposed changes to alcohol licensing should make us question whose interests we’re serving in the name of growth Increasing the consumption of harmful products is the opposite of healthy or productive growth, say Nason Maani and colleagues Preventable ill health is at the heart of the challenges facing this co...

Whose interests are served by "economic growth"? New @bmj.com opinion piece by LHGP member challenges UK plans to extend pub/bar hours in the name of growth, despite alcohol harms costing England £27.4bn/year.

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Local Health and Global Profits responds to Government’s Men’s Health Strategy Local Health and Global Profits responds to Government’s Men’s Health Strategy

Last week's unveiling of England's first Men's Health Strategy is welcome, but without tackling commercial determinants of health - the industries profiting from harmful products that disproportionately affect men - we'll only address symptoms, not root causes.

www.phiuk.org/news/local-h...

Follow up webinar, MMS Symposium 2025, 25 November at 11:00 - 12:00. Register now: From Understanding to Action: Commercial Determinants of Health in Practice: With Amber van den Akker, University ot Bath

Join @ambervandenakker.bsky.social, Research Associate with @lhgp.bsky.social, on Tuesday 25 November for a #webinar on understanding and acting on commercial determinants of health in practice, hosted by Medicus Mundi Switzerland.

Register now: exciting-leader-6110.kit.com/2dbb5b1bd9

Sum: $$$$

Politics & Profit of Disinformation in Public Health www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... by @marcozenone.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social et al. 🙏

Really important piece by some terrific colleagues. The incentives baked into our current information economy drive bunk.

The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health Disinformation is a coordinated or deliberate effort to knowingly circulate misinformation (i.e., false information) to gain money, power, or reputation. While most public health research has focused ...

Huge thanks to @markpetticrew.bsky.social @kristinakim.bsky.social @marcozenone.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social for partnership on a new review article: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

@lhgp.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @socsocmed.bsky.social @adphuk.bsky.social @felly500.bsky.social