Master Manipulators: Exposing Big Alcohol Lobbying in Scottish and British Parliaments

For the fourth episode in the third season of the Alcohol Issues Podcast we discuss the master manipulators. In two very recent Alcohol Policy Evaluation Hearings in both the Scottish and British Parliaments, alcohol industry participation drew widespread criticism and scrutiny.

Jane Gordon, Policy and Public Affairs Officer at SHAAP, the Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems. Jane joined SHAAP in January 2022 as Policy and Public Affairs Officer. She is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, where she completed her Master of Public Health Programme. Jane has a background in global health policy and advocacy, formerly focussing on nutrition policy in her role with World Obesity Federation. She has also previously worked for the NHS during pandemic relief efforts. 

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And Prof. Mark Petticrew. Mark is Professor of Public Health Evaluation in the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society of the Faculty of Public Health and Policy, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is the Director of the NIHR Public Health PRU with a focus on conducting public health research with a social determinants focus, delivered within four broad themes: Understanding what determines people’s physical and mental health, and health behaviours; identifying, developing and evaluating effective and cost effective PH interventions; generating evidence to inform strategies to reduce inequalities in health; and developing new theory and methods, and new ways to apply them to public health challenges.

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