What concerns?! 🤷‍♂️ Sounds like a great opportunity for Cambridge University’s Judge Business School to develop some new courses. Which ones do you think they should add? I’ll start: - the business of genocide

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

How health influencers online are misleading the public www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... Me: “I call it science-ploitation. They will talk about stem-cells, and the microbiome and precision medicine in order to sell products, even though there is no good evidence to support their claims.”

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....

When MAHA is finally over, these are the types of legacies that will need to be cleaned up.

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

Why do metaphors matter? Join our #webinar on 2 June (12-1) as we explore the metaphors we use in #PublicHealth and why they are essential to achieving the #policy changes needed to address the most pressing public health crises of our time. www.phiuk.org/news/events/...

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

This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Important to understand the drivers behind the concerted efforts made on disinformation, discrediting and dismantling of public health provision, that have been so evident since the pandemic began. As ever, follow the money.

Read the full paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The #wellness industry is worth trillions, but how much do we know about its impact on public health and policy? New #research published today in The Milbank Quarterly delves into its growing prominence and why its harms deserve urgent attention.

New paper out! 📢 The #wellness industry is a multi-trillion $ force: selling products, shaping norms, and now influencing policy. But it's rarely analysed in the way we scrutinize tobacco or pharma. We apply a commercial determinants of health lens to wellness, including #MAHA. Short thread 🧵⤵️

Our April newsletter is out! This issue covers a new #webinar on metaphor and #PublicHealth, a must-read briefing for local authorities on tobacco industry funding, and a roundup of the latest #CDoH news and resources. mailchi.mp/updates.bath...

God almighty, never in my life did I imagine something like this could happen—but RFK Jr’s MAHA movement keeps surprising us😢 Tobacco is the world’s number 1 cause of premature death & the tobacco industry is one of the most repulsive & cynical industries on earth www.statnews.com/2026/04/22/n...

New study 📝 We audited 5 AI chatbots to assess how they respond to health questions in misinformation-prone contexts. 49.6% of responses were rated problematic (e.g., suggesting alternative cancer clinics), with limited guardrails and many poor/fabricated citations. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4...

@elliefichera.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social @carolinecerny.bsky.social @geoffbates.bsky.social @phiuk.bsky.social @tcrgbath.bsky.social @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social

On Joe Rogan’s podcast, R.F.K., Jr., said that he had taken peptides himself and that, under his leadership, the F.D.A. would stop restricting many of them. The future of the agency—and the health of consumers—is at stake, Dhruv Khullar writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/t59pRm

And our final panel of the conference is 'Local politics and local state capacity' With papers from: @alfiegaffney.bsky.social Joanie Willett et al Lucas Borba @karremannancy.bsky.social et al Clare Maudling Chair: @peckersley.bsky.social 📆Wed 1st April, 1.30pm, St Catz Riverside Seminar Room A

More than half of TikTok ADHD content is misinformation, new research finds www.the-independent.com/tech/tiktok-... "...52% of #ADHD -related videos and 41% of autism videos analysed on TikTok were inaccurate..."

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. mailchi.mp/79219387372d...

Cross-sector collaboration is increasing but how do you protect #research integrity? A new case study led by @ambervandenakker.bsky.social offers step-by-step guidance on designing and implementing conflicts of interest #COI policies for complex research consortiums.

Excited to be part of the Prevention Research Conference 2026 this week, joining global leaders in #CommercialDeterminantsofHealth, inc. @monikakosinska.bsky.social and Prof. Sharon Friel (Australian National University), and our very own Prof. Anna Gilmore (@uniofbath.bsky.social)

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Had a great time at #EPH2025 with this @lhgp.bsky.social team! So many great presentations to learn from across the spectrum of public health research 👏🏻

Anyone at #EPH2025 in Helsinki, come to Hall B today at 11.45 for session 6.B to hear about @lhgp.bsky.social’s work on commercial determinants of health @karremannancy.bsky.social @georginawort.bsky.social

Researchers from the @lhgp.bsky.social research consortium will present work on local responses to commercial determinants of health at the 18th European Public Health Conference in Helsinki, 11-14 November 2025. #EHP2025 👉 Read more: www.phiuk.org/news/local-h...

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Paracetamol use during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Yep. Alarming rise in misinformation about women's health on social media, www.thestar.com/news/alarmin... via @thestar.com "Harmful diets, false information about intrauterine devices or abortion pills — misinformation and disinformation about women’s health are spreading..."

Every year the average retired woman earns £7,600 less than the average retired man. The Gender Pension Gap sits at 36.5% - more than double the Gender Pay Gap! Call on public sector employers to do more, including making statutory parental leave pensionable, and sign here: bit.ly/3Vn1NS3

An interesting policy debate: should you just give institutions money to do research, or make them bid? In think-tanks, two of the most effective outfits over the past twenty years have been Resolution Foundation and Centre for Cities - both with core funding www.economist.com/britain/2025...

this thread was extraordinarily helpful and shaped my thinking on this. unrolled it for easier reading.

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

It’s never been about “the science.”

New episode of Money Power Health is now out! Thanks so much to @vickycann.bsky.social from @corporateeurope.bsky.social who joined me to discuss lobbying by forever chemicals or PFAS manufacturers at the EU level: t.co/DjCGXKyO7A @eupha.bsky.social @lhgp.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social CDoH

Triangulating from “trans women are women” to appease transphobes until you land at the exciting new position: “no women are women.”

taking the opportunity to shamelessly promoting my research on corporate power and UPFs off the back of @theguardian.com's investigative work we need to start thinking about industry strategies in terms of a wider political economy of delay www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

Reading this brilliant article from @maizie333.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social et al today. Hard to think of a bigger contradiction than selling guns and calling your PR exercise/educational program “lifesaving” 🤢 #CDOH #PublicHealth doi.org/10.1186/s129...

We are hiring! We're looking for two post-doc researchers to help us deliver a randomised controlled trial of group model building to address inequalities in diet in English local authorities. Two 3y posts, ideally starting in July. Closing date 4 May. Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50905/

We did an analysis for the House of Lords Committee on Food, Diet and Obesity to look at the overlap between foods high in salt, fat and sugar (HFSS) and ultra-processed (UPF). We extended the analysis and it is published today (open access): nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...

📣 Paper accepted! Our research on media framing of calorie labelling shows one way "lifestyle drift" occurs in obesity policy. Analysis of 177 articles reveals how approaches get reframed as individual responsibility in public discourse. #PublicHealth #PolicyResearch www.ijhpm.com/article_4723...

Highly recommend this new 📜 on Tobacco industry & ENDS regulation by Ben Hawkins& @maizie333.bsky.social! ❤ the title "Reputational revival and industry survival" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

MAHA wellness influencer caught promoting Nestle owned supplements 👇🏻 www.instagram.com/p/DFYeb2Ny-9C/

Remember when RFK Jr profited off the lie that vaccines cause autism? He’s been doing it for 25+ years. Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/ZZCutMBhjpg?...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Prof Mark Petticrew to speak at The National Alcohol Conference 2025 Copenhagen on "Commercial Determinants – How the Alcohol Industry Affects Your Health" 🗓 Jan 28-29, 2025 🔗 More: alkohologsamfund-dk.translate.goog/alkohol-samf... 👉 Read more: 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀 lnkd.in/enPCFqy9

The deadline to submit abstracts for our panel at the 7th International Conference on Public Policy (Chiang Mai/ hybrid) is coming up at the end of this week - come join us to discuss local policy for global issues!

“chronic disease” is a dog whistle by RFK Jr. & influencers who don’t understand health & science, yet profit off selling lies. Why? Chronic diseases are a huge umbrella of MANY health conditions. Each have different causes, treatment options, risk factors. 1/