Katherine Körner (she/her)

Launch of FPH policy governing engagements with commercial actors There is now a substantial body of evidence for how engagements with industry can influence and undermine public health goals. Having a robust policy for engagement with commercial actors is core to p...

FPH is inviting all members to the online launch event of our policy for governing engagement with commercial actors.

Robust policies on engaging with industry are critical to protecting the integrity and functions of public health organisations.

www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...

Industry study sponsorship and conflicts of interest on the effect of unprocessed red meat on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review of clinical trials - PubMed This trial for systematic reviews or meta-analyses was registered at PROSPERO as CRD42024525197 (https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=525197).

Is red meat bad for you? New meta study of 44 studies finds it depends on the sponsor.

If the sponsor was impartial, most studies find it's bad for you.

If the sponsor was the red meat industry, most studies are structured to find no problems.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40379522/

“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.”

Leo Tolstoy

Guardian headline: Wood-burning stoves to be allowed in new homes in England despite concerns

The Labour gov have allowed wood burning stoves to be permitted in new homes as a secondary heating source in the Future Homes and Buildings Standards.

As an air quality scientist, this is appalling news. Smoke from stoves is a growing health hazard.

But why did the UK gov make this decision?

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Girl dinner. Girl math. Girl betting. Girl addiction. Girl predatory corporate strategy profiting off human misery. Girl hobbies

Important and interesting findings showing broad public support for more government action on these health harming products. Would love to see future polls include a question on public support/opposition for policies to shield health policy from influence of vested industry influences…

Yeah, absolutely agree - and being able to prep for a counterintuitive test is not necessarily what we want to be selecting on

Exactly this! Most of the non-medic trainees I know experienced a big step down in responsibility and autonomy when they became ST1s - overall I felt it was worth it (for me!), but it's very strange to set the eligibility criteria so high given what they're recruiting into

[I can't post about public health training recruitment without mentioning bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/3... , of course - and my pet theory, even if correct, does not account for the racial bias seen here, nor for the fact that the effects are seen across all the tests]

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By the time I was eligible to apply for the training scheme, I had supported a handful of ST1 public health trainees in my LA role (all medics) - I answered the SJT as if I were advising them on what to do, not with what I'd actually do

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My pet theory is that the experience level needed for non-medics to be eligible to apply is such that they answer the situational judgement questions as if they're more senior than the test wants them to be

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How British people think about health has changed
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Instead of… starting with health inequalities
Try… explaining how resource inequalities give rise to health inequalities

In shock news, gambling industry use same strategy as tobacco industry

This excellent analysis sets out how this happens and why that matters

2024 marked 70 years since the tobacco industry, faced with mounting evidence of the harm caused by its products, issued their “Frank Statement” to smokers reassuring them that the link between smoking and lung cancer was yet to be proven.🧵

Poverty's impact on our health is stark and this is yet more evidence that we need new plans and strategies for lasting change.

When I become King all boundaries will be fixed & the NHS will be forced to follow administrative structures. Any organisation trying to create a new set of geographies for its own ends will be abolished. Milton Keynes will be placed in the South East and Glossop in Derbyshire and that will be that.

Food industry has infiltrated UK children’s education: stealth marketing exposed BMJ investigation reveals widespread influence of food and drink brands in schools and nurseries—through breakfast clubs, nutrition guidance, and healthy eating campaigns. Experts say the tactics requ...

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Food industry has infiltrated UK children’s education: stealth marketing exposed

Good article
No surprises
Tactics well described
Lots of examples

HT @emmajourno.bsky.social

🔔 NEW at Health Promotion International

Overcoming doubt: developing CDoH Essentials, a practical tool to introduce the commercial determinants of health

✍️ Anna Brook, Katherine Körner, May C I van Schalkwyk, Amy Barnes, Mark Petticrew

OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae166

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V proud to have supported Anna Brook & colleagues by endorsing this important set of materials developed for public health professionals to use to run an introductory session on the commercial determinants of health.

Find out more and download CDOH Essentials ➡️ lnkd.in/ee8QZFVq

An infographic for the following thread describing key findings from Overcoming Doubt, a journal article about action research to develop CDoH Essentials: a set of materials for public health teams to plan and run introductory workshops on the commercial determinants of health for themselves and their partners

Overcoming doubt: developing CDoH Essentials, a practical tool to introduce the commercial determinants of health, now published in the special edition of @healthpromint.bsky.social Great to work with @katherinekorner.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social Amy Barnes and @markpetticrew.bsky.social

New documents emerge showing that cup manufacturers knew the cup was half-full all along

Volume 39 Issue 6 | Health Promotion International | Oxford Academic Publishes papers on major themes and innovations in the health promotion field. The journal publishes contributions from sectors beyond health, and seeks to promote theoretical, methodological, and ac...

We have added two new articles to our Special Issue on the Commercial Determinants today - led by @hannahpitt.bsky.social , and @ph-anna.bsky.social .

We now have 21 articles published in this special issue at @healthpromint.bsky.social with more to come! 👏 👏

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