Synopsis:
The most important vectors of the 21st century epidemics are not mosquitoes, ticks or lice. They are the giant supranational tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food and beverage corporations. This talk briefly recounts what public health professionals should know about the relentless, unethical, deceitful, cold-blooded, yet often highly innovative tactics these corporations employ, predicts what they will be doing in the next 10-15 years and outlines how we should be preparing and responding.
Speaker:
Rob Moodie is Professor of Public Health at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and at the Malawi College of Medicine. He worked for Save the Children and MSF in the Sudan, and for Congress in Alice Springs and was the inaugural Director of Country Programs for UNAIDS from 1995-98. From 1998-2007 he was CEO of VicHealth, and from 2008-2011 he chaired the National Preventative Health Taskforce which recommended the introduction of plain packaging. He now chairs the Gavi Vaccine Alliance’s Evaluation Advisory Committee, and advises WHO on NCDs and Health Promotion.