Jul 14, 2020
Dr Lauren Elsie White, SPECTRUM Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh In response to emerging evidence of a link between experiencing serious health consequences of contracting Covid-19 and obesity (Sattar et al., 2020) and the Prime Minister’s own experience of...
Jul 9, 2020
By Helen Dickens, Assistant Director of Policy and Campaigns, Diabetes UK and member of the OHA Steering Group On 9 July 2015, I was invited to attend a workshop set up by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). Bringing together 19 charities, royal colleges and...
Jun 18, 2020
By Daniel Hunt, Freelance Consultant in Public Health Policy Given the sheer volume of junk food marketing and promotions we see associated with sport, it’s easy to forget that this type of food is fundamentally unhealthy. For example, at their heart, the energy...
Jun 10, 2020
By Daniel Hunt, Freelance Consultant in Public Health Policy As the COVID-19 pandemic has starkly reminded us, the basic functioning of the economy, and the building blocks of a fair society depend on good health. Many people have been put at greater risk of the virus...
May 21, 2020
How food companies are keeping unhealthy food in the spotlight during the pandemic This simple advice on advertising was oozed by (entirely fictional and utterly callous) advertising legend, Don Draper in Mad Men. While he wasn’t specifically advising brands on how to...
May 18, 2020
Sarah Le Broq, Director of Obesity UK, a charity supporting people living with obesity, blogs for us on the importance of language when discussing obesity and coronavirus. Obesity is a complex health condition. The UK Government’s Foresight Report published in 2007,...
