Amber van den Akker
@ambervandenakker.bsky.social
Research associate at the University of Bath | Researching commercial influence on public health policy and multi-stakeholder partnerships.
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✨ The first three episodes of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco are out now! ✨
🔔 Subscribe on your preferred podcast platform and join us as we hold this deadly industry to account.
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@uniofbath.bsky.social
🔔 Subscribe on your preferred podcast platform and join us as we hold this deadly industry to account.
www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/de...
@uniofbath.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
✨ The first three episodes of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco are out now! ✨
🔔 Subscribe on your preferred podcast platform and join us as we hold this deadly industry to account.
www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/de...
@uniofbath.bsky.social
🔔 Subscribe on your preferred podcast platform and join us as we hold this deadly industry to account.
www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/de...
@uniofbath.bsky.social
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"Efforts to restrict the production of plastic “forever chemicals” that could threaten public health have been met with a large-scale coordinated attack by the multibillion pound industries that make and use them"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Industry using ‘tobacco playbook’ to fend off ‘forever chemicals’ regulation
Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter arguments made by fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Efforts to restrict the production of plastic “forever chemicals” that could threaten public health have been met with a large-scale coordinated attack by the multibillion pound industries that make and use them"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Excited to announce I‘ve been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship - starting this month, I‘ll be exploring why the meat production & consumption remains marginal in global debates about climate mitigation 🌱🐄 @leverhulme.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Excited to announce I‘ve been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship - starting this month, I‘ll be exploring why the meat production & consumption remains marginal in global debates about climate mitigation 🌱🐄 @leverhulme.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
Feeling very honoured to have received the Ilona Kickbusch Early Career Research. A massive thank you to the panel at @healthpromint.bsky.social @docsamantha.bsky.social and to my co-authors Alice Fabbri, Adam Bertscher, Anna Gilmore, Cecile Knai, @nickcavill.bsky.social and @harryrutter.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce the winner of the Ilona Kickbusch Award 2024 for best paper @healthpromint.bsky.social by an Early Career Researcher.
Congratulations @ambervandenakker.bsky.social for
Industry influence on public health policy formulation in the UK.
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
Congratulations @ambervandenakker.bsky.social for
Industry influence on public health policy formulation in the UK.
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
December 18, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Feeling very honoured to have received the Ilona Kickbusch Early Career Research. A massive thank you to the panel at @healthpromint.bsky.social @docsamantha.bsky.social and to my co-authors Alice Fabbri, Adam Bertscher, Anna Gilmore, Cecile Knai, @nickcavill.bsky.social and @harryrutter.bsky.social
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Global science review concludes tackling climate change, nature loss & food insecurity as ' siloed' separate issues won't work
Biodiversity loss is costing economy up to a quarter of global GDP, $25trillion
Delayed action on biodiversity could double eventual costs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Biodiversity loss is costing economy up to a quarter of global GDP, $25trillion
Delayed action on biodiversity could double eventual costs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Global science review concludes tackling climate change, nature loss & food insecurity as ' siloed' separate issues won't work
Biodiversity loss is costing economy up to a quarter of global GDP, $25trillion
Delayed action on biodiversity could double eventual costs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Biodiversity loss is costing economy up to a quarter of global GDP, $25trillion
Delayed action on biodiversity could double eventual costs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Transparency of financial conflicts of interest does not mean there is no vested interest 👏🙌
🔔 NEW at Health Promotion International
"Conflicts of interest in submissions and testimonies to an Australian parliamentary inquiry on menopause"
OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae150
✍️ Melanie Randle
Barbara Mintzes
Simone McCarthy
Hannah Pitt
Samantha Thomas
"Conflicts of interest in submissions and testimonies to an Australian parliamentary inquiry on menopause"
OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae150
✍️ Melanie Randle
Barbara Mintzes
Simone McCarthy
Hannah Pitt
Samantha Thomas
November 28, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Transparency of financial conflicts of interest does not mean there is no vested interest 👏🙌