UPDATE: Second event (Westminster) presentations here.
The Public Policy Team at the University of Southampton have released videos from a recent symposium to explore 'Big Alcohol, Big Tobacco, Big Influence: New vectors for global diseases', aiming to highlight the harmful effects from non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
The event brought together policy makers, practitioners and academics, to "debate the role of NCDs in society and their common vector – marketing by industry, to consider where and how policy interventions might effect change."
Guest speakers and their presentations included:
- Professor Don Nutbeam, Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton - see the welcome speech
- Dr Nick Sheron, Head of Clinical Hepatology, University of Southampton Professor - on 'Alcohol: unhealthy behaviours, toxic environments and vested interests'
- Linda Bauld, Professor of Health Policy, University of Stirlin, on David & Goliath: Tobbacco control and its opponents
- Professor Gerard Hastings, Professor of Social Marketing and Director of the Institute for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Stirlin, on Joining the dots: public health in a post marketing world
- Dr Geof Rayner, Professor Associate in Public Health at Brunel University, Editor in Chief, The Lancet, on Nudge, responsibility deals...and other neoliberal guff
A follow up event will take place at The Palace of Westminster: Tuesday 1 April 2014, 14:00 – 16:00 Committee Room 8, The Palace of Westminster. A few remaining places may be available here. [Update: presentations here.]
Dr Nick Sheron explores explores alcohol liver disease and policy:
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