Category Archives: Croakey Register of Influencers in Public Health

Update on the links between public health and corporate interests

October 12, 2011 – 7:44 pm

The Croakey Register of Influencers in Public Health has been updated, including an entry relevant to a recent Crikey article quoting the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research. If you’ve any other examples or relevant references to suggest, please get in touch. Thanks.

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A wrap of recent health news at Croakey

October 5, 2011 – 5:40 pm

Hola – I am back on deck. A large thanks to Jennifer Doggett for driving Croakey while I was away, and to Ben Harris-Roxas for looking after the Twitter feed. As previously mentioned, Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please [...]

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Announcing the Croakey Register of Influencers in Public Health (CRIPH) – and a call for helpers

August 26, 2011 – 7:48 am

(For updates to the Register, see its home page.) Concerns are widespread about the influence of pharmaceutical and other corporate interests on health and medical research, education, practice and policy. The Crikey Register of Influence, for example, documents the involvement of health and medical experts in many industry advertising and marketing campaigns. But we hear [...]

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