Corporate portrayals and perceptions in public health debates

Corporate portrayals and perceptions in public health debates

At the Eighth European Public Health Conference in Milan, Italy, public health researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom examined how portrayals of corporate practices that influenced health are characterized in the media in the United States and Europe and how public health professionals and policymakers perceive the role of the alcohol, tobacco and food industries in shaping public policy. The session, held on Oct. 17, 2015, was sponsored by the University of Glasgow Social and Public Health Sciences Unit and the journal Policy & Politics. The presentations included:

Nicholas Freudenberg

Lori Dorfman

Ben Hawkins

Left to right: Oliver Razum, Katherine Smith, Shona Hilton

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Nicholas Freudenberg (USA). The influence of corporate business and political practices on NCD risk. Download his presentation.

Heide Weishaar (UK) and Katherine Smith (UK). Better the devil you (don’t) know? A comparison of the tobacco, alcohol and processed food industries’ perceived political legitimacy. Download their presentation.

Lori Dorfman (USA). U.S. news coverage of corporate actors in food and beverage policy debates. Download her presentation.

Benjamin Hawkins (UK). also presented on Tensions and contractions in policy discourses and media coverage of the alcohol industry. You can read about his work here.

The session was chaired by Oliver Razum from Germany.

These presentations are cross-posted from Corporations and Health Watch.