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Original language | English |
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Article number | e003543 |
Journal | BMJ Global Health |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 16 Feb 2021 |
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Coca-Cola’s The Real Experience ‘flagship ‘Smashed’—educational plays in schools education programme for secondary funded by Diageo140 schools, colleges and universities in Great Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAPs)141 Britain’139 GamCare, Gambling Therapy and Gordon Moody Association, supported by industry-funded GambleAware One example of this phenomenon is a former director-general of the WHO who, having previously publicly defended the WHO publication of evidence-based sugar intake guidelines60 against direct threats from The Sugar Association to lobby Congress to remove US funding to the WHO,61 took a role as consultant to PepsiCo.62 During the same period, the executive director responsible for the prevention of chronic disease, and an early champion of the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, also followed his WHO tenure with a spell at PepsiCo. Supported by a 12-year funding commitment from Philip Morris International of $1 billion, he then launched the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World in supporting ‘tobacco harm reduction’ and identifying alternative livelihoods for tobacco farmers.63 Additional examples include the chief executive of the UK Wine and Spirit Trade Association having previously been deputy director of European Union Affairs and International Agriculture Policy within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.64 Moreover, in the context of the UK Department of Health’s Public Health Responsibility Deal (RD), a public–private partnership with the food, alcohol and other industries in England, with the stated goal of improving health,65 the UK Government Cabinet Office official formerly responsible for the RD alcohol network then took on a leadership role in the Portman Group, a UK body representing the alcohol industry, and with The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking, the industry’s global social aspects and public relations organisation. Such behaviour may have contributed to the RD including measures which were largely ineffective (and would have been known to be in advance, based on the evidence at the time).66 67 The US provides a range of examples of the ‘revolving door’ between the public and private sectors,68 including a Center for Science in the Public Interest lawyer moving to become a lobbyist for The Sugar Association.69 A recent study on the ‘revolving door’ in Australia found that a significant proportion of lobbyists were previously government representatives, citing several examples of government employees going to work directly for alcohol, food or gambling industries, often in roles directly related to their previous employment in government.70
Funders | Funder number |
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Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | |
Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office | SPHSU13, NIHR300156 |
Tobacco industry funded youth smoking cessation programmes152 Foundation | |
National Rosacea Society | SCAF/15/02, MC_ UU_12017/13 |
Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland | |
Wellcome Trust | MR/ S037519/1 |
Medical Research Council | |
Economic and Social Research Council | |
Natural Environment Research Council | |
National Institute for Health Research | |
British Heart Foundation | |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Government | |
Cancer Research UK | |
Health Foundation | |
Public Health Agency | |
Health and Social Care Research and Development Division |
Keywords
- public health
- qualitative study
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Policy
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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