A5019346431- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- CAR-T cell therapy research
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Global Health Care Issues
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Social Media in Health Education
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Services Management and Policy
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
University of Edinburgh
2023-2025
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2019-2025
University of London
2023-2025
Faculty of Public Health
2019-2025
Spectrum Brands (United Kingdom)
2023
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2020-2021
King's College London
2012-2021
Imperial College London
2016-2020
University College London
2016-2017
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
2017
Despite several advances, 5-year survival in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) remains unchanged at only 50%. The commonest cause of death is locally advanced/recurrent disease. Consequently, there an unmet need for new approaches to improve local control HNSCC. T4 immunotherapy autologous therapy which peripheral blood T-cells are genetically engineered using a retroviral vector coexpress two chimeric receptors: (i) T1E28z antigen receptor that engages multiple...
Policy Points Nudges steer people toward certain options but also allow them to go their own way. “Dark nudges” aim change consumer behavior against best interests. “Sludge” uses cognitive biases make more difficult. We have identified dark nudges and sludge in alcohol industry corporate social responsibility (CSR) materials. These undermine the information on harms that they disseminate, may normalize or encourage consumption. Policymakers practitioners should be aware of how are used by...
Pharmacological targeting of individual ErbB receptors elicits antitumor activity, but is frequently compromised by resistance leading to therapeutic failure. Here, we describe an immunotherapeutic approach that exploits prevalent and fundamental mechanisms which aberrant upregulation the network drives tumorigenesis. A chimeric antigen receptor named T1E28z was engineered, in promiscuous ligand, T1E, fused a CD28 + CD3ζ endodomain. Using panel ErbB-engineered 32D hematopoietic cells, found...
Most non-communicable diseases are preventable and largely driven by the consumption of harmful products, such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling ultra-processed food drink collectively termed unhealthy commodities. This paper explores links between commodity industries (UCIs), analyses extent alignment across their corporate political strategies, proposes a cohesive systems approach to research UCIs.
When the Fun Stops, Stop, is a prominent 'responsible gambling' campaign in UK, originally funded and delivered by industry-initiated Senet Group. Since Group's dissolution 2020, has been overseen Betting Gambling Council (BGC), main gambling industry trade body. There no prior analysis of activities, ideas framing adopted Group, who claimed to be acting as an 'watchdog' oversaw what they characterised major public education campaign. We collated written image-based material related Group...
Around the world, children are being exposed to intensive marketing for gambling products. This normalizes perceptions that is essentially a harmless form of entertainment, despite mounting evidence harms it causes. Young people and their parents supportive strategies protect from marketing. Yet existing regulatory efforts inconsistent inadequate, have not protected exposure many forms now developed exploited by industry. We outline knowledge about used industry market its products, with...
Abstract Agnogenic practices—designed to create ignorance or doubt—are well-established strategies employed by health-harming industries (HHI). However, little is known about their use industry-funded organizations delivering youth education programmes. We applied a previously published framework of corporate agnogenic practices analyse how these used them in three UK gambling Evidential adopted other HHI are prominent the programmes’ practitioner-facing materials, evaluation design and...
The use of tobacco industry tactics by the gambling and other health harming industries means governments must act to prevent large scale avoidable harm, argue <b>May van Schalkwyk colleagues</b>
Abstract The spread of the written word, facilitated by introduction printing press, was an information revolution with profound implications for European society. Now, a second is underway, digital transformation that shaping way Europeans live and interact each other world around them. We are confronted unprecedented expansion in ways to share access experiences, express ourselves communicate. Yet while these changes have undoubtedly provided many benefits health, from sharing improved...
Objective: Alcohol use during pregnancy can harm the developing fetus. The exact amount, pattern, and critical period of exposure necessary for to occur are unclear, although official guidance often emphasizes precautionary abstention. impacts on fertility breastfeeding also unclear. Information alcohol is disseminated by industry–funded organizations, there emerging concerns about its accuracy, suggesting need detailed analysis. Method: consumption in relation fertility, pregnancy, was...
The provision of commercialised gambling products and services has changed radically in recent decades. Gambling is now provided many places by multi-national corporations, with important implications for public health policymaking. United Kingdom one the most liberalised markets globally, however there are few empirical analyses policy from a perspective. This study aims to provide critical analysis core element UK policy, industry-funded youth education programmes.Adopting commercial...
Background and aim For decades, corporations such as the tobacco fossil fuel industries have used youth education programmes schools to disseminate discourses, ideas values favourable their positions, pre-empt regulation that threatens profits. However, there is no systematic research into alcohol industry-funded programmes. This article serves address this important gap in literature. Methods Using a discourse theoretical approach informed by poststructural theory critical analysis, we...