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What are the commercial determinants of health?

Thursday 8 May 2025. 15:00 – 16:00

This webinar will be chaired by Lucy Hubber, Local Health and Global Profits Advisory Group chair and Director of Public Health (DPH) Nottingham.

15.00 - Welcome & Introductions - Lucy Hubber

15.05 - Lancet Series: Commercial Determinants of Health - Professor Anna Gilmore, Director of Local Health and Global Profits research consortium, University of Bath
Presentation on the Lancet series on defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health (CDOH).

15.25 - A DPH Perspective - Peter Roderick, Director of Public Health, City of York Council
Presentation on what CDOH look like in practice and what action is available to local authorities when thinking about tackling the challenges associated with CDOH.

15.45 - Q&A
An opportunity for discussion and for audience members to ask questions to both presenters.

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Speaker biographies

Lucy Hubber, Director of Public Health, Nottingham City Council and Local Health and Global Profits Advisory Group Chair

Lucy Hubber is Director of Public Health for Nottingham. Throughout her career, she has focussed on improving health outcomes for populations and creating systems that enable people to make healthy decisions and access efficient services and ensure best use of limited public resources.

Since joining Nottingham City Council in 2021, Lucy has led the development of a revised Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy, implemented with system partners through the Place-based Partnership that addresses health inequalities and improves outcomes. Lucy has led innovative work on the effective use of the ring-fenced public health grant and her approach is national best practice and endorsed by the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH).

Lucy chairs the Local Health and Global Profits advisory group and has recently been elected to ADPH’s Board as Honorary Secretary, Practice Improvement.

Professor Anna Gilmore, Professor of Public Health, University of Bath

Anna Gilmore trained in public health in the UK, is currently Professor of Public Health, Founding Director of the Tobacco Control Research Group and Co-Director and founder of the Centre for 21st Century Public Health at the University of Bath. Her work focuses on the commercial determinants of health and evaluates the impacts of public policies on health. It has led to substantial policy impacts from local to global level, recognised through numerous awards including the WHO World No Tobacco Day Medal (2008), Public Health Advocacy Institute Award (2009), the inaugural European Health Leadership Award (2019) for ‘pioneering change makers’ and a Special Recognition Award from the WHO Director General (2021). In 2012, her team established the ground-breaking knowledge exchange platform www.TobaccoTactics.org and in 2018 became the research partner in STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog. She is currently principal investigator of the UKRI-funded Population Health Improvement UK consortium, Local Health and Global Profits, which seeks to address the commercial determinants of health at local level.

Peter Roderick, Director of Public Health, York City Council

Peter Roderick is the Director of Public Health for the City of York Council, overseeing public health services in the city and acting as the Council’s chief advisor on health issues.

Peter is interested in improving all aspects of human health, including helping people live healthy lives, improving the health of communities, tackling the wider determinants of health including poor housing, poverty, the commercial determinants of health, and declining planetary health, as well as protecting residents from health hazards.

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