Alice Kadri
@alicekadri.bsky.social
PH Registrar
Commercial Determinants of Heath
Public Mental Health
Commercial Determinants of Heath
Public Mental Health
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This is one of the major concerns regarding zero alcohol products: that they only benefit wealthier people because they're more expensive than standard alcohol.
Reducing alcohol deaths among the lowest socioeconomic groups has to be the priority, (🧵)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Reducing alcohol deaths among the lowest socioeconomic groups has to be the priority, (🧵)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Why are alcohol-free drinks so expensive? Some fake spirits cost over £25 a bottle!
In this new series, our money and consumer editor considers the often perplexing reasons items cost what they do. As a new report suggests booze-free booze can cost 25% more than the alcoholic equival...
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is one of the major concerns regarding zero alcohol products: that they only benefit wealthier people because they're more expensive than standard alcohol.
Reducing alcohol deaths among the lowest socioeconomic groups has to be the priority, (🧵)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Reducing alcohol deaths among the lowest socioeconomic groups has to be the priority, (🧵)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Alcohol causes almost 1 in 25 new cancer cases and leads to over 1 million 🏥admissions every year.
Current proposals for licensing reform focus on economic growth.
👀Read why we are calling for Public Health to be included as a licensing objective➡️bit.ly/498zOh0
Current proposals for licensing reform focus on economic growth.
👀Read why we are calling for Public Health to be included as a licensing objective➡️bit.ly/498zOh0
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Alcohol causes almost 1 in 25 new cancer cases and leads to over 1 million 🏥admissions every year.
Current proposals for licensing reform focus on economic growth.
👀Read why we are calling for Public Health to be included as a licensing objective➡️bit.ly/498zOh0
Current proposals for licensing reform focus on economic growth.
👀Read why we are calling for Public Health to be included as a licensing objective➡️bit.ly/498zOh0
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"Such regulatory capture should be resisted by anyone with an interest in fair and effective governance, as well as a concern for effectively preventing harm." @jamesnicholls.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Regulatory capture in UK alcohol licensing policy: The 2025 ‘licensing taskforce’ report
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Such regulatory capture should be resisted by anyone with an interest in fair and effective governance, as well as a concern for effectively preventing harm." @jamesnicholls.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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‘In a twist that befuddled researchers for a year, almost no human beings visit the sites, which are hard to browse or search. Instead, their content is aimed at crawlers, the software programs that scour the web & bring back content for search engines & LLMs’
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.
In their race to push out new versions with more capability, AI companies leave users vulnerable to “LLM grooming” efforts that promote bogus information.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
‘In a twist that befuddled researchers for a year, almost no human beings visit the sites, which are hard to browse or search. Instead, their content is aimed at crawlers, the software programs that scour the web & bring back content for search engines & LLMs’
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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📣 New Call for Papers on the Relationship Between Public Health and Politics
📅 Deadline: February 1, 2026
🔗 Info: buff.ly/huyzHG8
#CallForPapers #PublicHealth
📅 Deadline: February 1, 2026
🔗 Info: buff.ly/huyzHG8
#CallForPapers #PublicHealth
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
📣 New Call for Papers on the Relationship Between Public Health and Politics
📅 Deadline: February 1, 2026
🔗 Info: buff.ly/huyzHG8
#CallForPapers #PublicHealth
📅 Deadline: February 1, 2026
🔗 Info: buff.ly/huyzHG8
#CallForPapers #PublicHealth
Sell the brownie, not the recipe:
Don't take your policy out in public, it's unseemly. Your policy is not your message. The *outcome* of your policy is your message - the life it will deliver for people.
In other words, sell the brownie, not the recipe, like every effective marketer knows.
In other words, sell the brownie, not the recipe, like every effective marketer knows.
one of the things i think is that policies answer the question of “what will you do” but they don’t answer the question of “why should i vote for you” and i think there is a tendency in this broad conversation to equate the two
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sell the brownie, not the recipe:
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Regulatory capture & UK alcohol licensing review
There is currently a call for evidence from stakeholders on reforming the licensing system
www.gov.uk/government/c...
I have written a bit on why this matters here
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/r...
There is currently a call for evidence from stakeholders on reforming the licensing system
www.gov.uk/government/c...
I have written a bit on why this matters here
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/r...
Reforming the licensing system
Seeking views and evidence to develop a modern, proportionate and enabling licensing system under the Licensing Act 2003.
www.gov.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Regulatory capture & UK alcohol licensing review
There is currently a call for evidence from stakeholders on reforming the licensing system
www.gov.uk/government/c...
I have written a bit on why this matters here
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/r...
There is currently a call for evidence from stakeholders on reforming the licensing system
www.gov.uk/government/c...
I have written a bit on why this matters here
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/r...
Reposted by Alice Kadri
A new @addictionjournal.bsky.social commentary warns of regulatory capture in UK alcohol licensing
The ‘Licensing Taskforce’ - led by industry figures - could weaken democratic accountability & redefine licensing as business promotion, not public protection
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The ‘Licensing Taskforce’ - led by industry figures - could weaken democratic accountability & redefine licensing as business promotion, not public protection
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Regulatory capture in UK alcohol licensing policy: The 2025 ‘licensing taskforce’ report
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A new @addictionjournal.bsky.social commentary warns of regulatory capture in UK alcohol licensing
The ‘Licensing Taskforce’ - led by industry figures - could weaken democratic accountability & redefine licensing as business promotion, not public protection
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The ‘Licensing Taskforce’ - led by industry figures - could weaken democratic accountability & redefine licensing as business promotion, not public protection
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Alice Kadri
Peer lobbying to water down tobacco bill fails to declare conflict of interest, story from @theguardian.com and @theexamination.org www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Peer trying to derail UK smoking ban discussed bill with relative at tobacco firm
Lord Strathcarron says he and an in-law ‘high up’ at British American Tobacco discussed bill, which he aims to weaken
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Peer lobbying to water down tobacco bill fails to declare conflict of interest, story from @theguardian.com and @theexamination.org www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Guardian articles in 24 hours:
“Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UK
Successive governments criticised for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to reduce risk in the decade since cancer link found
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Guardian articles in 24 hours:
“Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Reposted by Alice Kadri
Register for the launch event of MPOWER+: a newly adapted framework designed to empower the public health community in tackling fossil fuel dependency.
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Join FPH for the launch of MPOWER+, a new framework to help the public health community tackle fossil fuel dependency.
This webinar will cover why the fossil fuel industry should be viewed through a commercial-determinants lens and how MPOWER+ was developed.
www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
This webinar will cover why the fossil fuel industry should be viewed through a commercial-determinants lens and how MPOWER+ was developed.
www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Launching MPOWER+: An Adapted Framework for the public health community to tackle fossil fuel dependency
This event will outline why the fossil fuel industry should be viewed through a commercial-determinants lens, how the MPOWER+ framework was developed and how it can be used to act against the industry...
www.fph.org.uk
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Register for the launch event of MPOWER+: a newly adapted framework designed to empower the public health community in tackling fossil fuel dependency.
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bsky.app/profile/fphu...
Reposted by Alice Kadri
FPH members are invited to Join FPH’s Alcohol SIG for an online webinar: Alcohol Licensing Under Threat.
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Join the Faculty’s Alcohol SIG for an online webinar: Alcohol Licensing Under Threat.
Dr. James Nicholls & Prof. Niamh Fitzgerald will discuss proposed changes to alcohol licensing, including a new ‘economic growth’ objective.
The event is open for FPH members www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Dr. James Nicholls & Prof. Niamh Fitzgerald will discuss proposed changes to alcohol licensing, including a new ‘economic growth’ objective.
The event is open for FPH members www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Alcohol Licensing Under Threat
Alcohol licensing under threat: the urgent need for public health responses to the UK Government's fast-track licensing consultation
www.fph.org.uk
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
FPH members are invited to Join FPH’s Alcohol SIG for an online webinar: Alcohol Licensing Under Threat.
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Reposted by Alice Kadri
Government plans to drop alcohol licensing notices from local papers risk shutting the public out of key decisions on pubs and night-time venues.
Cornwall Council’s leader warns of a blow to transparency and local democracy. @cornwallcouncil.bsky.social
www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/alcohol...
Cornwall Council’s leader warns of a blow to transparency and local democracy. @cornwallcouncil.bsky.social
www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/alcohol...
Secrecy looms over alcohol licensing reforms
THE leader of Cornwall Council is calling for “transparency and accountability” after new government proposals were released seeking to scrap the need for printed notices to be published in local news...
www.cornish-times.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Government plans to drop alcohol licensing notices from local papers risk shutting the public out of key decisions on pubs and night-time venues.
Cornwall Council’s leader warns of a blow to transparency and local democracy. @cornwallcouncil.bsky.social
www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/alcohol...
Cornwall Council’s leader warns of a blow to transparency and local democracy. @cornwallcouncil.bsky.social
www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/alcohol...
Reposted by Alice Kadri
Join FPH for the launch of MPOWER+, a new framework to help the public health community tackle fossil fuel dependency.
This webinar will cover why the fossil fuel industry should be viewed through a commercial-determinants lens and how MPOWER+ was developed.
www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
This webinar will cover why the fossil fuel industry should be viewed through a commercial-determinants lens and how MPOWER+ was developed.
www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Launching MPOWER+: An Adapted Framework for the public health community to tackle fossil fuel dependency
This event will outline why the fossil fuel industry should be viewed through a commercial-determinants lens, how the MPOWER+ framework was developed and how it can be used to act against the industry...
www.fph.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Join FPH for the launch of MPOWER+, a new framework to help the public health community tackle fossil fuel dependency.
This webinar will cover why the fossil fuel industry should be viewed through a commercial-determinants lens and how MPOWER+ was developed.
www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
This webinar will cover why the fossil fuel industry should be viewed through a commercial-determinants lens and how MPOWER+ was developed.
www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Reposted by Alice Kadri
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reposted by Alice Kadri
As ICE torments our communities billionaires profit from million dollar contracts with the federal agency.
littlesis.org/news/the-bil...
littlesis.org/news/the-bil...
October 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
As ICE torments our communities billionaires profit from million dollar contracts with the federal agency.
littlesis.org/news/the-bil...
littlesis.org/news/the-bil...
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Absolutely everything about this situation is insane: Mississippi residents are forced to sue a UK-owned biomass firm that was granted a permit to further pollute their community (while producing a BS product).
Mississippi residents sue UK-owned biomass firm granted permit for more emissions
Nearby residents say they have had health concerns due to air pollution from Drax Biomass facility
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Absolutely everything about this situation is insane: Mississippi residents are forced to sue a UK-owned biomass firm that was granted a permit to further pollute their community (while producing a BS product).
Reposted by Alice Kadri
The distribution of policy costs and benefits masks huge variation across the population.
On average, lower-income households shoulder a disproportionate burden from energy-related policies.
Our latest report proposes how the Government reduce energy bills for families ⤵️ buff.ly/4x4GNAa
On average, lower-income households shoulder a disproportionate burden from energy-related policies.
Our latest report proposes how the Government reduce energy bills for families ⤵️ buff.ly/4x4GNAa
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The distribution of policy costs and benefits masks huge variation across the population.
On average, lower-income households shoulder a disproportionate burden from energy-related policies.
Our latest report proposes how the Government reduce energy bills for families ⤵️ buff.ly/4x4GNAa
On average, lower-income households shoulder a disproportionate burden from energy-related policies.
Our latest report proposes how the Government reduce energy bills for families ⤵️ buff.ly/4x4GNAa
Reposted by Alice Kadri
A new report from @aha-uk.bsky.social, @ashorguk.bsky.social and @oha-updates.bsky.social explores the killer tactics used by unhealthy industries to undermine important public health policies.
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f998f9...
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f998f9...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A new report from @aha-uk.bsky.social, @ashorguk.bsky.social and @oha-updates.bsky.social explores the killer tactics used by unhealthy industries to undermine important public health policies.
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f998f9...
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f998f9...
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ICYMI: This is a must-read for this in the venn diagram of #devolution #economicgrowth and #health space - the evidence on the nuance of making it most effective in practice. 👇
📄New report | Inclusive Growth, Healthy Places
We have launched a new report supported by @healthfoundation.bsky.social focusing on the role of national government in creating the conditions for integrating health and economic development at place level
Read👇
growthandreform.org/resource-hub...
We have launched a new report supported by @healthfoundation.bsky.social focusing on the role of national government in creating the conditions for integrating health and economic development at place level
Read👇
growthandreform.org/resource-hub...
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
ICYMI: This is a must-read for this in the venn diagram of #devolution #economicgrowth and #health space - the evidence on the nuance of making it most effective in practice. 👇
Reposted by Alice Kadri
1/2 🚨Government plans to fast-track pub & hospitality licensing risk putting communities, local councils & the NHS under pressure. Longer drinking hours = more anti-social behaviour & strain on services. 🔽
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
1/2 🚨Government plans to fast-track pub & hospitality licensing risk putting communities, local councils & the NHS under pressure. Longer drinking hours = more anti-social behaviour & strain on services. 🔽
Reposted by Alice Kadri
📣Call for Articles
We invite submissions to the Special Collection on the 40th Anniversaries of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and @healthpromint.bsky.social . More info below! 👇
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We invite submissions to the Special Collection on the 40th Anniversaries of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and @healthpromint.bsky.social . More info below! 👇
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Call for Articles
Special Collection on the 40th Anniversary of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
We are pleased to announce that we have expanded contributions to the Spe
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October 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
📣Call for Articles
We invite submissions to the Special Collection on the 40th Anniversaries of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and @healthpromint.bsky.social . More info below! 👇
academic.oup.com/heapro/pages...
We invite submissions to the Special Collection on the 40th Anniversaries of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and @healthpromint.bsky.social . More info below! 👇
academic.oup.com/heapro/pages...
Reposted by Alice Kadri
new article in @reggovjournal.bsky.social that examines how corporations engage in 'venue hopping' as a means to advance agendas in multiple spaces and at multiple levels
This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world
This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world
Corporate Power in a Multistakeholder World: Venue Hopping and the Multilevel Politics of Ultra‐Processed Food
The regulation of business is increasingly characterized by “soft” governance regimes that blur the boundaries of public and private authority, as signaled by the rapid proliferation of multistakehol...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
new article in @reggovjournal.bsky.social that examines how corporations engage in 'venue hopping' as a means to advance agendas in multiple spaces and at multiple levels
This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world
This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world
“Haribo declined to comment when approached by the BBC”… perfection
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Haribo declined to comment when approached by the BBC”… perfection
Reposted by Alice Kadri
➡️ Alcohol causes 7 types of cancer.
➡️ Alcohol also contributes to 100s of other conditions, inc high blood pressure & liver disease.
➡️ Alcohol consumption also contributes to violence & injury.
👀 Read our response to the Government's review of licensing rules in full ➡️ bit.ly/3VX4uKk
➡️ Alcohol also contributes to 100s of other conditions, inc high blood pressure & liver disease.
➡️ Alcohol consumption also contributes to violence & injury.
👀 Read our response to the Government's review of licensing rules in full ➡️ bit.ly/3VX4uKk
October 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
➡️ Alcohol causes 7 types of cancer.
➡️ Alcohol also contributes to 100s of other conditions, inc high blood pressure & liver disease.
➡️ Alcohol consumption also contributes to violence & injury.
👀 Read our response to the Government's review of licensing rules in full ➡️ bit.ly/3VX4uKk
➡️ Alcohol also contributes to 100s of other conditions, inc high blood pressure & liver disease.
➡️ Alcohol consumption also contributes to violence & injury.
👀 Read our response to the Government's review of licensing rules in full ➡️ bit.ly/3VX4uKk