'Participants of a recent Health and Social Care Committee evidence session were from the alcohol industry, where they misinformed politicians on the evidence base regarding how to reduce alcohol harm, while claiming undue credit for positive trends.'

- Dr Alastair MacGilchrist SHAAP

Great thread on new work from Nason Maani Mark Petticrew May van Schalkwyk

Our Chair, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, resigned as government alcohol adviser as the partnership stood to undermine efforts to protect public health.

Health policy must be free from harmful industry influence.

New article “Perils of Partnership: Interactions Between Public Health England, Drinkaware, and the Portman Group Surrounding the Drink Free Days Campaign” in IJHPM (0$) b #FOI dlvr.it/T5HpBq with Mark Petticrew May van Schalkwyk #CDoH Global Health Policy Unit School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh Spectrum SportsNet

In the UK, the alcohol industry remains an active participant in alcohol policy development.

Policy discourse should not be polluted by commercial interests, say Nason Maani May van Schalkwyk Alice Wiseman Mark Petticrew
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Commercially driven efforts to frame alcohol harms have no place in UK health policy development | The BMJ bmj.com/content/385/bm…

for the avoidance of doubt, this is what Public Health orgs think about what is needed next in gambling reform, esp wrt to 'prevention'

adph.org.uk/2024/03/newgam…

Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) Faculty of Public Health Royal Society for Public Health

New evidence submitted by Mark Petticrew May van Schalkwyk and Nason Maani to the Health and Social Care Committee Prevention Inquiry, correcting the misleading claims made by alcohol industry representatives at the evidence session on alcohol, is well worth a read🔎

committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…

On 6th Feb Health and Social Care Committee took evidence from alcohol industry stakeholders on alcohol harms

There was a great deal of selective evidence given
In the spirit of balance, here are arguments to counter industry PR

HT Mark Petticrew Nason Maani
May van Schalkwyk
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Good to see BBC News (UK) holding Mayor of London to his promises. We should all have the right to control how much gambling advertising we want to experience #newgamblingact bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Happy international women’s day to all the amazing women I have had the privilege of working with Sarah Gorman sheinaz stansfield QI Louise Sweeney Maggie Rae RuthSharrock Dr Claire Sullivan FFPH Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) (all the women DsPH) Sam Allen 💙 Trudie Davies May van Schalkwyk Prof Samantha Thomas

new open access paper in Soc Sci & Medicine on the WHO Foundation and corporate philanthropy

we argue that the creation of a foundation at one remove from WHO has displaced issues of financing to more secluded spaces less amenable to scrutiny

doi.org/10.1016/j.socs…

Concerningly, #Smashed continues to be delivered in the UK & other countries, an issue we analyse here: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…. More countries should follow Ireland's lead in officially advising schools to not use education materials funded by harmful industries. I-CAAN

Any evidence that the limits are safe?

Any evidence that 2.5 sec spin speed is safe?

Rather than tinkering at the edges, we need fundamental change:
- a statutory duty of care with right of redress.
- control of advertising
- duty on GC to prevent harm not permit gambling.

As Rebecca Cassidy and I have previously argued 'The incremental changes to gambling regulation proffered by the government’s white paper are superficially appealing, but limited reforms will ultimately help to conserve flawed legislation.' bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Disappointing to see gov seeking evidence on reducing harm related to alcohol from the industry and industry-funded organisations, in spite of clear evidence from previous submissions that these have been used to dispute evidence, promote self-regulation and undermine World Health Organization (WHO) recs

Great to see HPI published papers in the media. You can read the full paper here: academic.oup.com/heapro/article… Paper led by May van Schalkwyk

Our research on industry-funded education materials led by May van Schalkwyk popping up in Private Eye Magazine #CDoH Global Health Policy Unit Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM

New #CDOH Paper 🔥🔥
What are the impacts of the commercial determinants of health on children and young people? 🧵
Open access in Health Promotion International (OUP)

Dr Simone McCarthy Grace Arnot Institute for Health Transformation

academic.oup.com/heapro/article…