Hello everyone, and welcome back to Money Power Health. Today I have the great privilege of speaking to Rebecca Cassidy, professor of social anthropology at Goldsmiths, on the gambling industry and her experience of working on gambling industry research. The gambling industry has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, particularly through o…

Hello and welcome back to Money Power Health. “Think global, act local!” “Be the change you want to see in the world!” “Every little bit counts!” We can all get on board with such sentiments, right? Well, todays guest Grant Ennis, would question that. He is the author of the book "Dark PR: How corporate disinformation undermines our health and the …

Hello everyone, and welcome to Money, Power, Health. All three themes very much play into the health and wellbeing of the people of Lebanon, which has been assailed by a multi-pronged crisis for the past few years. Lebanon hosts an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees, the largest number of refugees per capita of any country, and has experienced a…

Hello everyone and welcome back to Money Power Health. As we have been discussing in previous episodes, health is to a large degree shaped by our social and physical environments. Public Health, as defined by Acheson, is “the science and art of promoting health, preventing disease, and prolonging life through the organized efforts of society.” Some…

The firearm industry is, without question, a commercial determinant of health. It manufactures and markets harmful products, and companies actively compete with each other on features like round count, ease of reloading, and lethality. More civilian-owned firearms, of more types, with more accessories like scopes or red dot sights, more bullets and…

Hi everyone, and welcome back to money power health, a podcast on how our health is influenced by wealth and power. As we discussed in our introductory episode with Sandro Galea, one of the main things that determines our health is the distribution of resources and opportunity, yet, when we think of data on health that might better inform decisions…

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Money Power Health. As you know, this podcast is about money, and power, and the role they play in shaping population health. I am particularly interested in the commercial determinants of health, the activities of the private sector, and the structures it operates in, that shape health directly and indirectly. O…

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Money Power Health. As I mentioned in the first episode, part of the goal of this podcast is to bear witness to some of the hidden forces that shape health, and the extent to which they relate to money and power. Sometimes it is hard to perceive, but everything from the quality of the air you are breathing, to th…

Welcome back to Money Power Health. This week, we are speaking to Professor Martin McKee, on his research in public health, the responsibility to communicate public health to wider audiences, including the media, and some advice for early career researchers on specialisation and collaboration. Martin is a Professor of European Public Health at the …

Welcome to Money Power Health, a podcast on how our health is influenced by commercial forces, wealth and power, hosted by Dr. Nason Maani, lecturer in inequalities and global health policy at the University of Edinburghs Global Health Policy Unit. In this first episode, with the help of guest Professor Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University Schoo…

On this episode we talk about the tobacco industry influence on advances in tobacco prevention. Ann Boonn is a national expert who joins us from Washington DC and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/upstreamph/support

This is the 4th episode of the Upstream Public Health Podcast. We are extremely excited to have Dr. Frank Chaloupka joining us today along with our host, Jill Hutson. Dr. Chaloupka is a research professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Has gotten awards, from among others, the World Health Organization. He has written over 200 articles o…

"What you are trying to do in Oregon is right on spot." Delmonte Jefferson - Join your host Jill Hutson as she interviews Delmonte Jefferson, the Executive Director of NAATPN, a national non-profit organization that facilitates health programs to benefit communities and people of African descent. You can learn more about NAATPN by visiting www.naat…

"We know that study after study has shown that tobacco taxes are the most effective way to reduce tobacco use." - Mark Meaney This is the second part of our series on tobacco taxes. Mark Meaney of the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, at the Public Health Law Center from Mitchell Hamlin School of Law joins us today. Mark is a long time attorney wor…

This is the first episode of the Upstream Public Health Podcast. This is the place where we will talk about the public health prevention issues of the day. This first episode our host, Jill Hutson, interviews Upstream board member Daniel Morris about the importance of tobacco taxes. This is an introduction to the 5 reasons you should care about tob…