Resources on Conflict of Interest and corporate influence on public health

CoI, Ethics, Commercial Determinants of Health and Industry Interference on Public Health


Freudenberg N. Lethal but legal : corporations, consumption, and protecting public health. USA: Oxford University Press; 2014.

Hastings G. Why corporate power is a public health priority. BMJ. 2012 Aug 21;345:e5124.

Kickbusch I, Allen L, Franz C. The commercial determinants of health. Lancet Glob Health. 2016;4 (12):e895–e896.

Knai C, Petticrew M, Mays N, Capewell S, Cassidy R, Cummins S, et al. Systems thinking as a framework for analyzing commercial determinants of health. Milbank Q. 2018;96(3):472–498.

Maani N, Collin J, Friel S, Gilmore AB, McCambridge J, Robertson L, Petticrew MP. Bringing the commercial determinants of health out of the shadows: a review of how the commercial determinants are represented in conceptual frameworks. European Journal of Public Health. 2020 Jan 18. 

Maani N, McKee M, Petticrew M, Galea S. Corporate practices and the health of populations: a research and translational agenda. The Lancet Public Health. 2020 Feb;5(2):e80–e81.

Madureira Lima J, Galea S. Corporate practices and health: a framework and mechanisms. Globalization and Health. 2018 Feb 15;14(1):21. 

Madureira Lima J, Galea S. The Corporate Permeation Index - A tool to study the macrosocial determinants of Non-Communicable Disease. SSM-Population Health. 2019 Apr;7:100361.

McKee M, Stuckler D. Revisiting the corporate and commercial determinants of health. American Journal of Public Health. 2018 Sep;108(9):1167–1170.

Millar JS. The corporate determinants of health: how big business affects our health, and the need for government action! Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2013 Jul 14;104(4):e327–9.

Aveyard, P., D. Yach, A. B. Gilmore and S. Capewell (2016). "Should we welcome food industry funding of public health research?" BMJ 353.

Birn, A. E., Richter, J., & Waitzkin, H. (2017). US Philanthrocapitalism and the Global Health Agenda: The Rockefeller and Gates Foundations, Past and Present. Health Care under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for our health.

Buse, K., & Hawkes, S. (2016). Sitting on the FENSA: WHO engagement with industry. The Lancet388 (10043), 446-447.

GIFA/IBFAN (2003). We the Peoples’ or ‘We The Corporations’: Critical Reflections on UN- business Partnerships, Geneva

Ken, I. (2014). "A Healthy Bottom Line: Obese Children, a Pacified Public, and Corporate Legitimacy." Social Currents.

Marks, J. H. and D. B. Thompson (2011). "Shifting the focus: conflict of interest and the food industry." American Journal of Bioethics 11(1): 44-46.

Mialon, M., Swinburn, B., & Sacks, G. (2015). A proposed approach to systematically identify and monitor the corporate political activity of the food industry with respect to public health using publicly available information. Obesity Reviews16(7), 519-530.

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2004) Public-private Partnerships and International Health Policy-making: How Can Public Interests Be Safeguarded? Elements for Discussion Series.

Neltner, T. G. and M. V. Maffini (2014). "Conflicts of interest in approvals of food additives--reply." JAMA Internal Medicine 174(2): 300-301.

Suddath, C. and S. Duane. (2014). "Coke confronts its big fat problem." BloomergBusinessweek  from http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-31/coca-cola-sales-decline-health-concerns-spur-relaunch#p

Swinburn, B., V. Kraak, H. Rutter, S. Vandevijvere, T. Lobstein, G. Sacks, F. Gomes, T. Marsh and R. Magnusson (2015). "Strengthening of accountability systems to create healthy food environments and reduce global obesity." The Lancet 385(9986): 2534-2545.

Thompson, D. F. (1993). Understanding financial conflicts of interest. New England journal of medicine329, 573-573. 

World Health Organisation (2005) Global partnerships and Health for All: Towards an institutional strategy. A discussion paper for the Department of Government, Civil Society and Private Sector Relations, Geneva

Zed Books (2001).Holding Corporations Accountable: Corporate Conduct, International Codes, and Citizen Action,

Nestle, Marion. (2001). Food company sponsorship of nutrition research and professional activities: A conflict of interest?. Public health nutrition. 4. 1015-22. 10.1079/PHN2001253.

Newton, A., Lloyd-Williams, F., Bromley, H., & Capewell, S. (2016). Food for thought? Potential conflicts of interest in academic experts advising government and charities on dietary policies. BMC public health, 16, 735. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3393-2

Pedroza-Tobias A, Crosbie E, Mialon M, Carriedo A, Schmidt LA. Food and beverage industry interference in science and policy: efforts to block soda tax implementation in Mexico and prevent international diffusion. BMJ global health 2021; 6(8).

Mialon M, Ho M, Carriedo A, Ruskin G, Crosbie E. Beyond nutrition and physical activity: food industry-shaping of the very principles of scientific integrity. Global Health 2021; 17(1): 1-13.

Maani N, Van Schalkwyk MC, Petticrew M, Ralston R, Collin J. The new WHO Foundation—global health deserves better. BMJ global health 2021; 6(2): e004950.

Carriedo A, Lauber K, Miller MM, Ralston R. Lacking Clarity or Strategic Ambiguity?; Comment on “Competing Frames in Global Health Governance: An Analysis of Stakeholder Influence on the Political Declaration on Non-Communicable Diseases”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2021

GECoI Network webinars:

-    Webinar #1- Commercial Determinants of Health: Definitions and Risks: Recording and Slides

-    Webinar #2- Commercial Determinants of Health: Characterizing harmful industries and their products: Recording and Slides

-    Webinar #3- Commercial Determinants of Health: conflicts of interest and corporate practices that are harmful to health: Recording and Slides

-    Webinar #4- Solutions to address the commercial determinants of health:   Recording and Slides

-    Webinar #5- Corporations and Global Health Governance: Recording and Slides

-    Webinar #6- Commercial Determinants of Health: Special webinar on the COVID19: Recording and Slides

-    Webinar #7- Corporate determinants of health: corporations, trade and health: Recording and Slides

-    Webinar #8 - Solutions to address the Commercial Determinants of Health (2): Community-level actions: Recording and Slides

-   Webinar #9 - Déterminants Commerciaux de la Santé: Théorie et Pratique [French]: Recording and Slides

- Webinar #10 - Determinantes comerciales de la salud: teoría y práctica [Spanish]: Slides