📢🆕Early view❗️ How has the idea of #healthyworldpopulation evolved❓ Jean-Louis Denis, Miriam Cohen, @catherine_regis & colleagues examine its evolution with a focus on the #ideationalrobustness of World Health Organization (WHO)'s "health credo"👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsocie…

🚨 New article by Matt Simon Lesch and Jim McCambridge in BMJ Global Health: "Are we moving into a new era for alcohol policy globally? An analysis of the Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-30" gh.bmj.com/content/9/2/e0… #globalalcoholactionplan #openacess

How to overcome corporate resistance against taxation? Recent Review of Policy Research article by Christensen & Per Lægreid shows how policymakers in Norway managed to adopt a “salmon tax” by leveraging expertise advice & gaining support from local-level stakeholders. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ro…

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📢🔥 Our new piece is out in Globalization and Health "Continuities and change in alcohol policy at the global level: a documentary analysis of the 2010 Global Strategy for Reducing the Harmful Use of Alcohol and the Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022–2030" tinyurl.com/2u4amu3u

New article 🚨by Matt Simon Lesch and Jim McCambridge: Continuities and change in alcohol policy at the global level: a documentary analysis of the 2010 Global Strategy for Reducing the Harmful Use of Alcohol and the Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022–2030 rdcu.be/dLg8p

Big Alcohol Uses Social Media to Create Parallel Universe Where Actual #AlcoholHarms & Policy Solutions Are Absent 🚨movendi.ngo/science-digest… 💡Matt Simon Lesch & colleagues - very insightful, timely study about the obstacles Uganda Alcohol Policy Alliance and others face to promote #AlcoholPolicy in🇺🇬

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The alcohol industry does not what the people want. The people, the many, want to see health for themselves and their families, safe and thriving communities, happy children, and development in their societies. movendi.ngo/news/2020/02/2… #BigAlcoholExposed #AlcoholHarms #CDoH

Smart politics, terrible policy I suspect many voters will support increased alcohol availability. Yet the full public health costs won't be apparent until after the next election

One of the most culturally striking differences between flying in Europe and North America is the aggressive alcohol marketing. I've been on flights where pilots literally upsell Prosecco over the intercom

Important read from Movendi International: "The Alcoholic Drinks Control Bill in Uganda was effectively sabotaged by a combination of economic arguments, fear-mongering over illicit alcohol, and resistance to regulation from the alcohol industry." shorturl.at/6WlmJ

💥New: Walking in policymakers’ shoes - Using role-play to foster better research/policy relations 👩‍💻Lucile Maertens, Audrey Alejandro @audreyalejandro.bsky.social (LSE Methodology) & Zoé Cheli #Policymaking #EvidenceBasedPolicy wp.me/p4m9em-dfl

Fascinating

🚨New blog article for IAS with colleagues May van Schalkwyk Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social entitled "Following the science on public health partnerships: the alcohol industry is no ordinary stakeholder" @GHPUEdinburgh Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh UoE Social Policy #CDoH ias.org.uk/2024/10/29/fol… 🧵

When Luke died, I was under the illusion that the Gambling Commission, as a regulator with the powers to enforce, would want to investigate Luke's case so that lessons could be learnt and every effort to prevent deaths like this would made. I was wrong. The Gambling Commission