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Introducing the Centre for 21st Century Public Health Brown Bag Seminar Series

This new seminar series for Bath researchers aims to spark interdisciplinary collaboration and offer opportunities for exchanging ideas.

About the series

Our monthly Brown Bag Seminar Series is an informal and supportive space for University of Bath researchers to share work in progress, spark interdisciplinary collaborations, and exchange ideas. The seminars are organised around broad research themes, ranging from corporate influence on science, to tobacco and other addictions, commercial and other structural determinants of health, and healthy environments and sustainable economies.

Sessions will be held in person on the first Tuesday of every month at 12 noon. A light lunch will be provided, and the seminar itself will begin promptly at 12.15 pm, running for approximately one hour. The room will remain booked until 1.30 pm to allow time for informal discussion and networking.

Whether you are developing a paper, planning a grant, or exploring a new research question, these sessions are a great way to connect with colleagues across the University.

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Upcoming events

Find out about the events in the series.

Gambling with health? The relationship between access to gambling venues and mental health in Australia and England

Dr Lachlan Cameron, University of Manchester

Tuesday 25 November, online

Dr Lachlan Cameron is a Research Fellow in Health Economics at the Health Organisation, Policy and Economics, University of Manchester. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2024, studying the relationship between mental health and gambling. In this talk he will present his past work on gambling in Australia and current work on gambling in England.

Economic inequality & local food environment

Ciaran Hay

Tuesday 16 December, 12-13:30pm, in-person

Ciaran Hay is a PhD student within the UKRI funded Population Health Improvement (PHI) Local Health Global Profits theme, in the Centre for 21st Century Public Health. In this talk, he will present work in progress from his PhD on the relationship between economic inequality and local food environment in England.

Threats of climate change to governance for health and equity: taking a commercial determinants and multisectoral policy perspective

Dan Hunt

Tuesday 20 January, 12-13:30pm, in-person

Dan Hunt is a PhD student in the Department for Health within the UKRI funded Population Health Improvement Local Health Global Profits theme, in the Centre for 21st Century Public Health. His research focus is in the commercial and economic determinants of health, with particular attention to the intersection of business, health, equity and climate change. His doctoral research focuses on how policies to improve health and tackle climate change grapple with the role of commercial actors, their influencing practices, and their enabling economic systems. He also investigates the adoption of governance mechanisms to address these commercial forces in local, national and global multisectoral policies.

Homes, health, and community wellbeing: Monetising urban design impacts to support better policy making

Dr Eleanor Eaton

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 12-13:30pm, in-person

Dr Eleanor Eaton holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bath. She is interested in the economics of health and urban environments, and especially in metrics which can help decision making to improve the places where we live. She has worked within the UKPRP funded project, “Tackling Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development’ (TRUUD), on quantifying the impacts of unhealthy urban development. Her focus is specifically on the societal costs of health, including direct and indirect costs, such as healthcare and productivity costs, and non-market valuation techniques, such as stated preference and contingent valuation.

Professor Javier Rivas

Tuesday 12 May 2026, 12-13:30pm, in-person

Javier Rivas is Professor of Microeconomics Theory. He has led major knowledge-exchange initiatives across health economics, anthropology, and political economy. His research on sugar taxes and unhealthy-food policy appeared in over a hundred outlets and various national newspapers, led to BBC and The Economist interviews, and reached around 2.5 million people. Moreover, it informed briefings for the WHO, Public Health England and parliamentary groups. Moreover, Javier's interdisciplinary anthropology studies have been quoted in multiple outlets with an AVE exceeding £1.6m and reached an audience of 178 million people. Furthermore, he regularly writes for The Conversation, among other outlets.