Unmasking Influence - talk and film screening with Prof Mark Petticrew

The George Institute for Global Health is proud to invite you to a talk and film screening with guest, Professor Mark Petticrew, Faculty of Public Health and Policy at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Director, NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit.
This is a hybrid event.

What is Unmasking Influence about?

Unmasking Influence is a film about how corporations influence policy and public health. It was produced by two members of the Commercial Determinants Research Group, Dr May van Schalkwyk and Professor Mark Petticrew and was funded through the SPECTRUM Consortium*.
The film provides insights on how any of the major public health crises we face today are largely driven by powerful corporations. The extent and impact of harmful commercial influences need to be revealed and addressed.

The talk will be followed by a screening of the film (45 mins duration).

See the trailer for the film here https://vimeo.com/1123819285. 

More about the film:

Powerful commercial actors and the actions they take, affect us all, every day of our lives – many are undermining our health, our choices as individuals and as communities, and the sustainability of the planet. They shape what we see, eat, and do, and the science and laws that govern our societies. Yet we hardly talk about them or challenge the way they have become so powerful.

Unmasking Influence brings the commercial influences that are shaping our world out of the shadows through the expertise and experiences of people who work to expose and counter these forces. It aims to show, using examples from the tobacco, food, alcohol, pesticides, and other industries, why addressing these harmful commercial determinants of health is the major public health issue of our time and why policymakers must act.

* The SPECTRUM Consortium was funded (2019-2025) through the UK Prevention Research Partnership (grant reference MR/S037519/1), an initiative funded by UK Research and Innovation Councils, the Department of Health and Social Care (England) and the UK devolved administrations, and leading health research charities.