Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP)

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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.

Apply now: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

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...)

#CDoH #Disinformation #PublicHealth @elliefichera.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social @carolinecerny.bsky.social @geoffbates.bsky.social @phiuk.bsky.social @tcrgbath.bsky.social @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social

"The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health"Dr Kristina Kim (University of Edinburgh) with colleagues:Dr Marco Zenone (University of Ottawa) Dr Alessandro Marcon (University of Alberta Health Law Institute)

LHGP member Kristina Kimis presenting at Public Health 2026 ( #ph26sp ) in Montréal this week! She is joining an Insight Forum session tackling one of the most pressing challenges in public health today: "The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health".

A thriving market stall

The Commercial Determinants of Health Resource Hub is live - a free, curated collection of tools, frameworks, and evidence to support #PublicHealth action on #CDoH, developed by LHGP and @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social.

👉 bath.ac.uk/campaigns/commercial-determinants-of-health-resource-hub

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Monika Kosinska from WHO presenting on Commercial Determinants of Health - Essential to the prevention agenda.

Members of LHGP stand in front of a Prevention Conference 2026 poster.

PhD student Ciaran Hay presents on the impact of spatially contingent economic inequality on the local food environment in England and Wales

What a week for LHGP at #PreventionResearch2026 with many LHGP researchers presenting new evidence on the commercial determinants of health, from local government to food environments to alcohol policy. LHGP was described as "trailblazing" by WHO's @monikakosinska.bsky.social.

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👉 Read the paper: publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/jo...
👉 Access the LHGP COI policy: www.phiuk.org/local-health...

New research; Developing guidance on assessing and managing conflicts of interest for a complex public health research consortium; Journal of research Management and Administration; PHI UK / Local Health and Global Profits

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.

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Prevention Research 2026 preventionresearch26.co.uk Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity

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)

SARG researchers to showcase local health modelling at the Prevention Research Conference 2026 - Sheffield Addictions Research Group Researchers from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) will present work from the Local Health and Global Profits programme at the Prevention Research Conference 2026 in Birmingham on 4-5 Mar...

Are you attending the Prevention Research Conference next week? Look out for SARG researchers @charlierosehead.bsky.social and Esther Chanakira who will be presenting advanced modelling work from the @lhgp.bsky.social @phiuk.bsky.social programme. Read more on the SARG website 👇 #PublicHealth

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Local Health and Global Profits webinar: The business of health misinformation Local Health and Global Profits webinar: The business of health misinformation

👉 Register now: www.phiuk.org/news/events/...

Join us on 23 March (15:30–17:00) for our upcoming webinar: The Business of Health Misinformation. We will explore how social media platforms are shaping health outcomes and spreading misinformation, and what this means for conflicts of interest between the social media industry and #PublicHealth.

Ultraprocessed foods, Palantir, and political donations: how governments enable health system exploitation The Epstein scandal tells us much about how power is acquired, leveraged, and abused. One of the more sobering lessons is the mechanism by which governments are influenced and corrupted. We trust gove...

"One conclusion is clear, and it is this: a population’s health is primarily in the hands of the government, and it is a responsibility that politicians must embrace fully."

@kamranabbasi.bsky.social in Editor's Choice
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👉 View the World Inequality Report 2022, p14, from the World Inequality Lab demonstrating that public sector wealth is steadily declining while private sector wealth increases: wir2022.wid.world/www-site/upl...

Annual calendar exposes alcohol and UPF industries' relentless push to increase consumption

👉 Read more: www.phiuk.org/news/annual-...

👉 Access the calendar: www.tcd.ie/healthytrini...

Montage of the 2026 calendar which exposes UPF and alcohol industry's relentless push for consumption.

Researchers have created a 2026 calendar exposing how #UPF & #alcohol brands manufacture consumption "occasions" year-round. It features Prof Anna Gilmore's framework showing the systemic issue: corporations harm health, but governments pay the costs while private wealth increases.

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New research shows that spending less on tobacco, gambling and sweets is good for the UK economy - Sheffield Addictions Research Group A new study from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) has found that public health policies which reduce spending on harmful products can actually provide a significant boost to UK jobs and ...

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