How much of the money that should go into NHS services in your area but instead goes to private shareholders? @chpithinktank.bsky.social have crunched the numbers (and it’s a lot) www.nhsprofitmap.org.uk

The wellness industry’s influence goes beyond dubious health claims. Our new article led by @karremannancy.bsky.social with @spidermaani.bsky.social and Benjamin Hawkins examines the wellness industry from a commercial determinants of health perspective. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Elena Whitham, former Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy at the Scottish Government, discusses her experiences of commercial influence on health policymaking, and the advice she would give to other policymakers seeking to make a healthier, more equitable society podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

What does a former Minister for Drugs and Alcohol think about commercial influence on health policy? New Money Power Health episode with @spidermaani.bsky.social and @elenawhitham.bsky.social, former MSP and Minister. Essential for new MSPs and public health professionals 🎧️ Free to listen:

This week, we feature a piece by @spidermaani.bsky.social about how industries shape what the public believes, starting with children. tinyurl.com/46jw2esa

Lots going on in politics in Scotland and the UK just now but whatever happens there’s always one constant in the background: the ongoing influence of big business - like alcohol - on policy that’s supposed to protect our health.

Essential listening for new and returning #MSPs in the #ScottishParliament @mareetodd.bsky.social @ross-greer.bsky.social @alex.scotlibdems.org.uk

Via @spidermaani.bsky.social's Money, Power, Health podcast I came across the work of the @chpithinktank.bsky.social & this mapping of how much NHS money feeds into private profit: bsky.app/profile/jane... - and the "investment model" often targets the most vulnerable & thus least vocal groups

Open access ⤵️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... With thanks to co-authors @marcozenone.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social and Ben Hawkins #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy #CommercialDeterminants #CDOH #Wellness

Super valuable & needed analysis! 👇 The Political Economy of Wellness: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... "...wellness industry deploys political strategies closely resembling those of other harmful commodities industries, including undermining scientists and policymakers..." #ScienceMatters

What does commercial influence on #HealthPolicy actually look like in practice? This is the subject of the latest episode of Money, Power, Health by @spidermaani.bsky.social, Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) Deputy Director.

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

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

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

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

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 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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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.

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

In @bmj.com, @spidermaani.bsky.social, @maizie333.bsky.social, and @markpetticrew.bsky.social highlight the £27.44bn annual cost of alcohol harms in England and the lack of transparency in the government’s licensing review.

ICYMI, our new article in @bmj.com with @markpetticrew.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social, on new alcohol licensing, is below

“Liberalising licensing is not a neutral act. It prioritises commercial interests and shifts costs to overstretched health and social care systems.” Read more: www.bmj.com/content/391/... #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy #AlcoholPolicy #CommercialDeterminants

www.bmj.com/content/391/... Proposed changes to alcohol licensing Growth for whom, and at what cost Liberalising licensing is not a neutral act. It is a policy decision to prioritise commercial interests and shift any costs to already overstretched health, emergency, and social care systems

The government recently announced plans to extend the opening hours for pubs and bars in England and Wales. This proposal shows a failure to differentiate between healthy and harmful growth, say @spidermaani.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Thanks to @markpetticrew.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social for joining me on this new opinion in @bmj.com eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... @lhgp.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social

"Tackling the political and commercial determinants of health is no longer a technocratic exercise; it has become a geopolitical imperative," write LHGP director Anna Gilmore and co-authors in an article published in a special issue of EuroHealth. eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...

🎬 🍿 Official Film Release! We’re thrilled to announce the public release of Unmasking Influence -now available via the LSHTM Vimeo channel! vimeo.com/1123819285 There is overwhelming evidence that many industries are undermining public health.This documentary makes the issues visible and relatable.

Great analogy from @spidermaani.bsky.social in today's Killer Tactics 2 workshop, looking at the commercial determinants of ill-health and the profit-driven companies behind them. "We've spent a lot of time looking at the malaria parasites, and not enough time looking at the mosquitos."

This weeks substack essay, with Sandro Galea, is on the challenge facing public health in an uneasy time, and learning from the history of ideas: open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...

You’ve probably seen this. Bottom line is that new meds tend to skew spend away from higher value interventions. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

✨ New podcast episode out now ✨ This week on #DeadlyIndustryPod, Louis is joined by @ambervandenakker.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social from @lhgp.bsky.social to unpack a critical concept - multistakeholderism. 🎧 Listen now: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...

Great to hear @ambervandenakker.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social on the latest @tcrgbath.bsky.social podcast looking at why health-harming industries, like tobacco, seek a seat at the policy-making table.

New Money Power Health substack essay just out: The Hidden Shallows of Academic Impact Metrics 📊 Why “impact” can be too often defined by what can be measured, not what matters. Full piece (free, ad free) here: open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...

“This Supposed Conflict of Interest”: Analysis of Industry Framings of Partnership and Conflict of Interest in WHO Public Consultations on Alcohol Policy (just accepted in @jsadjournal.bsky.social) @spidermaani.bsky.social @thersaorg.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Corporate profit is being prioritised over public health. Discover how corporate power is driving public health crises in the upcoming documentary, Unmasking Influence. #CDOH #CorporatePower @maizie333.bsky.social

This week’s Substack essay is out—with special guest co-author Sandro Galea 🎉 It kicks off our new series Ideas about Ideas, on where ideas come from, why that matters, and how we can build a healthier discourse. Free & ad-free: open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...