Section: Research Groups
Global Public Health Unit
Developing an improved understanding of the commercial sector constitutes a core challenge for public health research and policy. Key issues in global health centre on issues of how to engage with, harness the resources of or mitigate the health impacts of market actors. The rising global burden of non-communicable diseases reflects developments in food, alcohol and tobacco industries, strategies for tackling infectious disease and reaching the Millennium Development Goals centre on partnerships with pharmaceutical corporations, while contemporary debates about health systems across high-income and developing countries often centre on the respective roles of state and commercial health providers in health care financing and delivery.
GPHU’s research explores the influence of corporations on public health policy, their impacts on health sector reforms, corporate social responsibility and voluntary regulation, and approaches to partnerships and managing conflict of interest in health governance. Current and recent areas of research include:
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