A Healthier Profit Introducing our new public-facing book

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A Healthier Profit: The cost of business as usual and the case for health. Nason Maani, Sandro Galea

The gap between what we know about commercial forces and health - and what we're doing about it - is large. LHGP's Nason Maani and Sandro Galea's new book, A Healthier Profit @oxunipress.bsky.social sets out to close it. Available for pre-order now ahead of its 2027 launch.

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🚨Another tactic: pushing for weaker alternatives to tobacco control laws

Industry called for an increase in the age of sale of tobacco to 21 instead of the generational smoking ban in the T&V Bill
Yet when an age of sale increase to 21 was proposed in the Netherlands, they lobbied against it 🤔

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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.

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Deadline for applications: 9 am, Tuesday 28 April.

BBC Radio 4 - Money, Influence and the NHS, New World Order Dr Margaret McCartney’s quest to reveal conflicts of interest that may impact your care

ADPH President @felly500.bsky.social joins Dr Margaret McCartney in the last episode of Money, Influence & the NHS, to talk about industry partnerships within the service. Greg explores why these relationships are becoming more common & their impact on public health.

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Safeguarding public health policy from undue industry influence A 2023 Lancet study on non-communicable disease (NCD) policies showed that global NCD policy implementation was stalling, particularly for tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food (Allen et al., 2023). A k...

Why are global NCD policies stalling? Writing for @medicusmundich.bsky.social, Dr Amber van den Akker examines how multistakeholder governance can enable undue corporate influence, and why stronger safeguards are needed to protect public health policy.

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I’m a Green Party councillor for City Ward #Sheffield. It’s a densely populated urban ward.

I’m going to talk about digital advertising screens, which doesn’t sound exciting, but please bear with me.

I want to explain why I spend time objecting to so many of these.

Since 2023, I’ve …

Leading LHGP academics join global experts making the case for wellbeing-centred policymaking Leading LHGP academics join global experts making the case for wellbeing-centred policymaking

Two leading #PublicHealth academics from @lhgp.bsky.social to address politicians and policymakers at the Wellbeing Economy Forum in Iceland, challenging participants to tackle health harming industries and structures.
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Anna on the panel, pictured with University of Bath Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost Professor Marcus Munafò and Cara Charles-Barks

Anna drew on lessons from tobacco control to address how regulatory loopholes and conflicts of interest must be tackled to build a genuinely preventative public health system.

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Professor Phil Taylor Vice-Chancellor and President at Bath, Deputy Vice-Chancellor; Provost Professor Marcus Munafò; Cara Charles-Barks; Professor Anna Gilmore; Professor Millicent Stone.

LHGP Director Anna Gilmore joined the panel at the University of Bath's inaugural Adelard Lecture, following a keynote by Chief Medical Officer Prof Chris Whitty on shifting health systems from treatment to prevention.

Tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels - four products linked to 19 million deaths a year. Our partners at ADPH have published a new position statement on the commercial determinants of health. #PublicHealth #CDOH

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.

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(Left) Monika Kosinska with Prof. Anna Gilmore presenting at the Prevention 2026 Conference. (Right) Members of the LHGP team at the Prevention 2026 Conference.

Our March newsletter is out! At #PreventionConference2026, Monika Kosinska from the @who.int called LHGP a trailblazer for translating commercial determinants of health into local action. This month: webinars on misinformation and active travel, new resources, and more.

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Houses of Parliament and Big Ben

When commercial interests influence public health policy, evidence-based voices matter more than ever. We've launched a new page on our website, bringing together all our responses to government consultations on the commercial determinants of health (#CDoH) in one place www.phiuk.org/local-health...

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#JobVacancy: Are you a confident and efficient administrator? Do you have experience of working with multiple stakeholder groups? Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) is seeking a Project Officer to join its passionate and friendly team.

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Excited to head to Montréal and present on commercial disinformation in public health - the topic of our recent paper in Annual Review of Public Health @annualreviews.bsky.social (see: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...)

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