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/

Just watched the #Panorama coverage of weight loss injectables and couldn’t help thinking…how delighted were those pharma execs when the BBC proposed this programme? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Donald #Trump’s transition team seeks to pull US out of #WHO ‘on day one’ Swift exit would remove #globalhealth body’s main source of funds and damage its ability to tackle emergencies “catastrophic” for global health www.ft.com/content/e606...

Collaboration in Action! The LHGP Consortium came together in Bristol for an inspiring workshop—progress, ideas, and a clear roadmap ahead. From systems mapping to engagement strategies, teamwork was at the heart of it all! @phiuk.bsky.social @adphuk.bsky.social #PublicHealth #CDOH #LHGPConsortium

The Centre for 21st Century Public Health is looking for: 🔎 a Director of Operations to develop its strategic vision and manage the team 🔎 a Research Fellow to develop its research profile and support the development of its researchers. 📅 Apply by Sunday 5 January - www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/jo...

Disinformation and Misinformation shared by Steven Bartlett in his so-called health podcast has multiple dubious claims, debunked ‘experts’ including Malhotra and people with stakes in wellness including the host who also makes £££ from the podcasts. 😡😡😡🧪

Our Goop-ified health world may seem fundamentally modern, but there is a direct line between today’s wellness industry and the mid-1800s/ early 20th century. I wrote how the history of wellness is the best way to understand RFK Jr.'s appeal: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

Agreed! As researcher in the public health and diet space, I’m so tired of the attempt by some to cherry pick the stuff they like (anti-Big Food) from MAHA’s bag of crazy (anti-vax, fad diets, supplements for everything). That’s not how politics works, and risks legitimating the whole package.

RFK Jr et al isn't just evil vaccine bunk + a few good ideas. (The sanewashing equation.) He is evil vaccine bunk + other nonsense. What isn't said enough about the MAHA movement, is that none of the proposals are evidence-based. It is political posturing.

www.bmj.com/content/387/... children’s education: stealth marketing exposed

“Health-harming industries seeking to avoid regulation or liability portray themselves as ‘part of the solution’, while shifting the blame for harms onto others” - @maizie333.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social et al new in @healthpromint.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

🔔 NEW at Health Promotion International Overcoming doubt: developing CDoH Essentials, a practical tool to introduce the commercial determinants of health ✍️ Anna Brook, Katherine Körner, May C I van Schalkwyk, Amy Barnes, Mark Petticrew OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae166

All the rage about "censorship cartel"? More spin. Eg, our study found allegedly "censored" natural herd immunity rhetoric was (in reality) a dominant theme in public discourse: journals.plos.org/globalpublic.... Misinformation was/is everywhere. Far from "silenced." False balance bigger issue.

Petition by RFK Jr fan pushes Montreal to stop putting fluoride in drinking water www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by @mauraforrest.bsky.social Yes, RFK Jr's normalization of bunk a threat to Canada too. RFK Jr gave person who launched petition "moral support." Beware slow creep of darkness.

Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr. group's attempt to protect anti-Covid-vaccine doctors from investigations www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup... Lost effort to protect MDs from "being investigated in Washington state for allegedly spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 virus."

Amen « Decolonizing the CDoH must be an important part of our discussions, ensuring that power, knowledge systems and expectations about ‘action’ are not solely shaped by academics and organizations in the Global North.» academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

🔥 great paper by van den Akker et al @harryrutter.bsky.social @docsamantha.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... 2 shifts needed: de-normalise perception of unhealthy commodity industry actors as legitimate stakeholders in policy and prioritise public health objectives over profit.

I’m really looking forward co-chairing a panel with at #ICPP7 in July 2025 on multi-level governance, localism, and federalism and local government as a site of innovation for planetary health 🌏 The call for papers is now open, so please do come join us!