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Truth, commerce and the academy: when can we trust public health research? Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7e218bc315b4dc40ca2c0e5a5&id=874b9303d2&e=87fc26a12c>. Apologies for cross-posting INAUGURAL LECTURE AT THE BARTS & THE LONDON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & DENTISTRY QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Allyson Pollock, Professor of public health research and policy TRUTH, COMMERCE AND THE ACADEMY: WHEN CAN WE TRUST PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH? Slaying poverty and inequality is the cornerstone of public health. Risk avoidance and consumer demand are the mainstays of business strategies. International commerce plays an increasing role in the provision of public health around the world. However, whereas public health must formulate and design policies to redistribute resources more fairly, business strategies focus on dismantling these equity mechanisms and replacing them with selective systems in order to gain access to pools of tax finance. Public health is engaged in a contest to protect risk sharing and universality from an evolving technical apparatus the aim of which is to support the new hegemony of market-driven health care. In this lecture, the influence of commercial interests on the scientific basis and normative direction of policy making will be discussed to show how the strategic preoccupations of industry have interpenetrated public health sciences research and policy via a new "academy" increasingly dedicated to market selection. 5.30pm, Tuesday 17 May 2011 Perrin Lecture Theatre, Blizard Building, Newark St, London E1 2AT If you wish to attend, please reply by email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.smd.qmul.ac.uk/events/publichealthprimarycare/Allyson%20Pollock/45156.html<http://allyson-pollock.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7e218bc315b4dc40ca2c0e5a5&id=eb5ca9dcc4&e=87fc26a12c> Prof Allyson Pollock Centre for Health Sciences Queen Mary, University of London 44 (0)20 7882 5637 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> forward to a friend<http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7e218bc315b4dc40ca2c0e5a5&id=874b9303d2&e=87fc26a12c> Our mailing address is: [log in to unmask] unsubscribe from this list<http://allyson-pollock.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7e218bc315b4dc40ca2c0e5a5&id=333cf0360b&e=87fc26a12c&c=874b9303d2> | update subscription preferences<http://allyson-pollock.us1.list-manage.com/profile?u=7e218bc315b4dc40ca2c0e5a5&id=333cf0360b&e=87fc26a12c> | view email in browser<http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7e218bc315b4dc40ca2c0e5a5&id=874b9303d2&e=87fc26a12c> Sent to [log in to unmask]: unsubscribe<http://allyson-pollock.us1.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=7e218bc315b4dc40ca2c0e5a5&id=333cf0360b&e=87fc26a12c&c=874b9303d2> | update profile<http://allyson-pollock.us1.list-manage.com/profile?u=7e218bc315b4dc40ca2c0e5a5&id=333cf0360b&e=87fc26a12c> | forward to a friend<http://us1.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=7e218bc315b4dc40ca2c0e5a5&id=874b9303d2&e=87fc26a12c> [http://gallery.mailchimp.com/089443193dd93823f3fed78b4/images/banner1.gif]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?aid=7e218bc315b4dc40ca2c0e5a5&afl=1> ****************************************************** Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your message will go only to the sender of this message. If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's 'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically to [log in to unmask] Disclaimer: The messages sent to this list are the views of the sender and cannot be assumed to be representative of the range of views held by subscribers to the Radical Statistics Group. To find out more about Radical Statistics and its aims and activities and read current and past issues of our newsletter you are invited to visit our web site www.radstats.org.uk. *******************************************************