Lancet Series on Commercial Determinants of Health (2020-23)

• Project Leaders:
  Prof Anna B Gilmore, Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Prof Sharon Friel

• Project Chair
  Prof Rob Moodie

Project Details

The landmark Lancet Series on Commercial Determinants of Health (CDoH) brought together a global intergenerational and multidisciplinary team of researchers and thought leaders to help consolidate thinking around the CDOH. Paper 1, Defining and Conceptualising the Commercial Determinants of Health outlines a definition for and simple conceptual model of the CDOH.  It explains the system nature of the problem in which our current global political and economic system enables rather than constrains harmful commercial practices and, consequently, why downstream interventions are wholly insufficient to address NCDs and other commercially driven health harms. Paper 2, Conceptualising commercial entities in public health: beyond unhealthy commodities and transnational corporations outlines a new framework to enable meaningful distinctions between commercial entities. It explores how this framework can be operationalised, for example as tool for decision-making about engagement, managing conflicts of interest, or monitoring and research around the CDOH. Paper 3, Commercial determinants of health - future directions explores solutions to the CDOH. It proposes a multi-level governance system that privileges public interests over profits and challenges contemporary capitalism. This includes progressive economic models, international frameworks, government regulation, compliance mechanisms for commercial entities and business models that incorporate health, social and environmental goals.

Researchers

Anna B Gilmore
Jennifer Lacy-Nichols
Sharon Friel
Safura Abdool Karim
Fran Baum
Adam Bertscher
Krista Bondy
Ha-Joon Chang
Jeff Collin
Mike Daube
Cassandra de Lacy-Vawdon
Sandro Demaio
Anneliese Depoux
Agnes Erzse
Alice Fabbri
Nicholas Freudenberg
Sandro Galea
Karen J Hofman
Paula Johns
Alexandra Jones
Amos Laar
Kelley Lee
Camila Maranha Paes de Carvalho
Robert Marten
Jim McCambridge
Martin McKee
Melissa Mialon
Rob Moodie
Sulakshana Nandi
Mark Petticrew
Lindsay Robertson
Viroj Tangcharoensathien
Anne Marie Thow

Funding

The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Spectrum, University of Bath, University of Melbourne, Australian National University