This theme investigates the upstream commercial, social, political, and economic influences that shape health outcomes and inequities. This encompasses the underlying conditions that influence the availability and accessibility of health-harming products as well as how structures, institutions and norms interact with industry market and non-market strategies, including industry engagement in policy.
The research brings together public health, political economy, governance and policy studies, sociology, and comparative policy analysis to examine the pathways through which commercial, economic and political systems interact to impact health, with the aim to develop innovative approaches to prevention at scale.
This theme is led by Dr Rachel Barry, Dr Amber van den Akker, Dr Darragh McGee and Professor Anna Gilmore