Defining Priorities for Action and Research on the Commercial Determinants of Health: A Conceptual Review

Nicholas Freudenberg1, Kelley Lee1, Kent Buse1

  • 1Nicholas Freudenberg is with the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY. Kelley Lee is with the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Kent Buse is with The George Institute for Global Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK. Jeff Collin is with the Global Health Policy Unit, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Eric Crosbie is with the School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada‒Reno. Sharon Friel is with the Menzies Centre for Health Governance, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Daniel Eisenkraft Klein is with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada. Joana Madureira Lima is with the World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Kyrgyzstan Country Office, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Robert Marten is with the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Melissa Mialon is with Trinity Business School, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Marco Zenone is with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

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