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Suella Braverman, "These are supposed to be some of the brightest and the best students in the land, and taught in the art of articulating their views. And expressing arguments in a coherent way. And I'me interested in hearing their argument. Engaging and listening" Cambridge

The evidence continues to roll in from across the UK. Water privatisation has been a complete failure.

really nice paper on the different ways of doing interpretive policy research in critical_policy doi.org/10.1080/194601…

🚨Paper Alert🚨 ~ 2 years after the UK Soft drinks Industry Levy (sugar tax) was enforced we find a 21% reduction in incidence rates of NHS hospital admissions for asthma in children, aged 5-18y. Read in full: rdcu.be/dKnoB

We often read about negative unintended consequences of #foodpolicy, but here's a positive example from Dr Nina Rogers MRC Epidemiology Unit and colleagues ... unexpected co-benefit of soft drinks industry levy + asthma

Ultra-processed food corporation power is growing, & multi-stakeholderism is broadly accepted in global food governance. But who governs powerful multi-stakeholder institutions and what are their implications for UPF policy responses, governance & food system transformation? 👇🏼

👏Congratulations to WHO/Europe for their revealing report on the commercial determinants of health. Great contributions from MRC Epidemiology Unit expert Dr Ben Hawkins and many other colleagues from the UK. Full report here: iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…

📢 New study out! Dr Dori Patay and I attended a corporate affairs conference to gain insights from senior execs into the tactics being used but also their fears. A focus for all presenters was building & protecting a “social license to operate”. tinyurl.com/a3skh4vf 1/5

This might seem like a silly example, but addressing upstream causes (even literal ones) requires redefining what the science is and avoiding downstream drift. Might mean problematising more than these companies, but some much wider and more pervasive assumptions on our norms

hi @drinkaware . Would you consider images to be triggers also? Like advertising images? You seem to have omitted mentioning them

Gambleaware making concerned noises about gambling ads. Their solution? Fewer ads by their funders? Of course not- its YOU that's the problem! You need to 'get help'! because of how they make you feel! Its a reminder that industry front groups' role is to shift the blame. To you.

New The Health Foundation blog. Tl;dr: Making a stronger economic case is v important, but realising the potential of any investment needs to focus on more than just medicines and tech, and must involve the whole of gov working together. 🧵 health.org.uk/news-and-comme…

This is a critically important intervention - The alcohol industry has no expertise in public health policy and a strong conflict of interest. Years of research document how that COI manifests in CSR, "partnership", lobbying, PR, research funding #CDoH theguardian.com/society/articl…

New study! We caution against using Google reviews to evaluate treatment options for cancer. While reviews are compelling ("they cured my terminal cancer!"), they are an poor indicator of treatment outcomes and should not be used for treatment decisions. shorturl.at/6BuCr

Super pleased to see this paper out! ijhpm.com/article_4651.h… Led by the impressive Jenn Lacy-Nichols we examined how government lobbying disclosures rarely reveal who is lobbying or why. (1/6)

Hey Wimbledon BBC might want to check your presenters’ notes: calling the participants of the men’s final “the two best players on the planet” comes off just a wee bit sexist…