Mélissa Mialon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1725048 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mélissa Mialon |
| NOMBRES | Mélissa |
| APELLIDO | Mialon |
| FIRMA | MIALON M |
| AFILIACIONES | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9883-6441 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Public policies addressing unhealthy diets in the South-East Asia region
In South-East Asia, government implementation of policies recommended for addressing unhealthy diets has generally been slow and fragmented, largely due to food industry opposition and a lack of effective cross-sectoral policy action. To help government policy-makers and other interest-holders address these issues, this study aimed to identify key arguments that undermine implementation of policies for addressing unhealthy diets in the region, an…
Evaluation of an intervention limiting food industry influence on public food policy processes in Ghana
This study evaluates the immediate effect of an educational intervention implemented among key policy actors in Ghana. The intervention focused on creating awareness and increasing competencies for countering food industry public food policy dilution strategies. The intervention was evaluated using a before-and-after design, collecting self-reported awareness, appropriateness, competencies, and skill level rating, and using frequencies, percentag…
Interactions between registered dietitians and the food industry in Canada
In recent years, relationships between nutrition professionals and the food industry have raised concerns over the risks they may pose to the profession's credibility and integrity. However, empirical research on the nature and frequency of these interactions, as well as how professionals manage them, is limited. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted among 167 Registered Dietitians (RDs) from Quebec, Canada, regarding (i) the nature and …
“Favoring those who contributed to their political campaigns”
The food industry is a very influential actor in public health policies in Colombia. In particular, industry incentives, such as financial donations and other gifts to political parties, can help develop future alliances and initiate an exchange of favors. The objective of this study was to analyze the incentives granted by the food industry to policymakers in Colombia from 2018-2020 and to understand how these incentives could affect public heal…
Emergência nutricional no território Yanomami
A Terra Indígena Yanomami, a maior do Brasil, recebeu uma operação emergencial para enfrentar a crise sanitária devido à morte de 570 crianças menores de 5 anos por causas evitáveis entre 2019 e 2022, resultante do garimpo ilegal e desestruturação do sistema de saúde. A partir de janeiro de 2023, foi declarada situação de Emergência em Saúde Pública de Importância Nacional nesse território. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as ações de aliment…
Breastfeeding, first-food systems and corporate power
BACKGROUND: The exploitative marketing of commercial milk formula (CMF) reduces breastfeeding, and harms child and maternal health globally. Yet forty years after the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes (The Code) was adopted by WHO member states, many countries are still to fully implement its provisions into national law. Furthermore, despite The Code, worldwide CMF markets have markedly expanded. In this paper, we adopt …
Bartender
Our findings suggest a large presence of positively framed alcohol content posted by popular bartenders on TikTok©. As exposure to digital marketing is related to an increase in alcohol consumption, particularly among young people, regulations are needed to protect the public from alcohol-related harms
The company is using the credibility of our profession ’
Objective: To gain insight into the experiences and perspectives of registered dietitians (RD) in Canada regarding their interactions with commercial actors and actions undertaken to manage these interactions. Design: Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews combined with a document analysis. Setting: Quebec, Canada Participants: RD aged ≥ 18 years ( n 18) Results: All participants reported interacting with commercial actors during thei…
Conflicts of interest for members of the US 2020 dietary guidelines advisory committee
Objectives: To measure incidence of conflicts of interest (COI) with food and pharmaceutical industry actors on the advisory committee for the 2020–2025 US Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and assess the adequacy of current mechanisms to disclose and manage COI among the committee’s members. Design: We compiled longitudinal data from archival sources on connections between members of the DGA’s advisory committee and actors. We hypothesised …
Commercial determinants of health
Political and socioeconomic factors that shaped health taxes implementation in Peru
BACKGROUND: In 2016 and 2018, the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF) significantly reformulated taxes on tobacco products, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). During these processes, different actors advanced arguments supporting or opposing the taxes. This study examines Peru's political and socioeconomic factors, the role of other actors and framing strategies, shaping health taxes introduction. METHODS: We conducted qual…
Framing health taxes
Health taxes are effective policy instruments to save lives, raise government revenues and improve equity. Health taxes, however, directly conflict with commercial actors’ interests. Both pro-tax health advocates and anti-tax industry representatives seek to frame health tax policy. Yet, little is known about which frames resonate in which settings and how framing can most effectively advance or limit policies. To fill this gap, we conducted qual…
Decolonising research, advocacy and public policy on healthy diets
Large, global commercial actors fuel every region of our world with ultra-processed products and other unhealthy commodities Ultra-processed products are extremely profitable for food companies and are aggressively marketed to children, women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), amongst other groups With markets saturated in high-income countries, food companies also penetrate low-and middle-income countries Yet, there is ample evidence t…
Benefits and risks
Compounding humanitarian and political crises within and across countries have been met with shrinking public resources for coordination, recovery, and mitigation. This resource constrained humanitarian environment presents opportunities for multinational corporations to supplement budgets and actively participate in new markets through connecting with humanitarian work. Given the well-established influence of corporations on public health, an as…
Authors’ response to the letter entitled ‘Concerns about the “corporate capture” of The Academy article’
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Two countries, similar practices
Objective: To identify the corporate political activity (CPA) strategies used by food industry actors during the development of two public health nutrition policies in Central America: Law #570 (taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages) in Panama and Bill #5504 (labelling and food marketing regulations) in Guatemala. Design: We triangulated data from publicly available information from 2018 to 2020, (e.g. industry and government materials; social me…
Food and beverage industry interference in science and policy
Mexico is the largest soft drink market in the world, with high rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Due to strains on the nation’s productivity and healthcare spending, Mexican lawmakers implemented one of the world’s first public health taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in 2014. Because Mexico’s tax was designed to reduce SSB consumption, it faced strong opposition from transnational food and beverage corporations. We analysed previous…
How food and beverage companies leveraged the great recession
The COVID-19 pandemic presents opportunities for transnational food and beverage companies to further consolidate their power within global markets. The top three food and beverage companies, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestl, emerged from the Great Recession more globally dominant than before it. Food and beverage companies leveraged economies in low-income and middle-income countries, which experienced more limited impacts from the Great Recession, …
Obesity, public health ethics and the nanny state
Unhealthy dietary patterns are an important contributor to obesity and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). As with any public health challenge, as well as providing care to affected individuals, whole-population interventions are required to mitigate the environmental determinants of population dietary patterns. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has established recommendations, including a set of low-cost, high-impact ‘best buys’ for gove…
Globalization, first-foods systems transformations and corporate power
BACKGROUND: The global milk formula market has 'boomed' in recent decades, raising serious concerns for breastfeeding, and child and maternal health. Despite these developments, few studies have investigated the global expansion of the baby food industry, nor the market and political practices corporations have used to grow and sustain their markets. In this paper, our aim is to understand the strategies used by the baby food industry to shape 'f…
Breastfeeding, first-food systems and corporate power
BACKGROUND: The aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes (BMS) reduces breastfeeding, and harms child and maternal health globally. Yet forty years after the World Health Assembly adopted the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (The Code), many countries are still to fully implement its provisions into national law. Furthermore, despite The Code, commercial milk formula (CMF) markets have markedly expanded. In this pa…
Beyond nutrition and physical activity
The activities developed by ILSI on scientific integrity principles are part of a broader set of political practices of industry actors to influence public health policy, research, and practice. It is important to learn about and counter these practices as they risk shaping scientific standards to suit the industry's interests rather than public health ones.
A call to advance and translate research into policy on governance, ethics, and conflicts of interest in public health
Efforts to adopt public health policies that would limit the consumption of unhealthy commodities, such as tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food products, are often undermined by private sector actors whose profits depend on the sales of such products. There is ample evidence showing that these corporations not only try to influence public health policy; they also shape research, practice and public opinion. Globalization, trade and investmen…
The second mother’
Most babies in France are fed with infant formula and then commercial complementary foods, many of which are ultra-processed and harmful to health. Internationally, there is opposition by the baby food industry to the introduction of public health policies that would limit the marketing and consumption of such products. Our aim was to identify the key baby food industry actors, describe their history and corporate political activity (CPA) in Fran…
Arguments used by trade associations during the early development of a new front-of-pack nutrition labelling system in Brazil
Objective: To analyse the arguments used by the food industry during the early development of the new nutrition front-of-pack labelling (FOPL) in Brazil. Design: A thematic qualitative analysis was performed using an inductive approach. All data were collected and analysed between December 2018 and April 2019. Data included documents published by the Brazilian government, including industry’s contributions to a technical public consultation, as w…
Medidas regulatórias de proteção da alimentação adequada e saudável no Brasil
Medidas regulatórias estão entre as estratégias de promoção da alimentação adequada e saudável preconizadas pela Política Nacional de Alimentação e Nutrição (PNAN). Embora outras ações de promoção da alimentação adequada e saudável tenham avançado no Brasil, essas medidas progridem lentamente. O objetivo do trabalho é identificar e descrever fatores relacionados ao desenvolvimento e à implementação das principais medidas regulatórias de proteção …
How are frames generated? Insights from the industry lobby against the sugar tax in Ireland
There is a causal link between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and a range of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancers. Despite this, no country in the world has reduced its obesity levels because the factors that drive obesity continue unchanged (Swinburn et al., 2019). One systemic driver is corporate influence on the public policy process. The world's largest food and beverage manufacturers engage …
Comparison of food industry policies and commitments on marketing to children and product (re)formulation in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji
Unhealthy food environments are known to be major drivers of diet-related non-communicable diseases globally, and there is an imperative for major food companies to be publicly accountable for their actions to improve the healthiness of food environments. This paper examines the prevalence of publicly available policies and commitments of major packaged food and soft drink manufacturers, and fast-food restaurants in Australia, New Zealand and Fij…
A proposed approach to systematically identify and monitor the corporate political activity of the food industry with respect to public health using publicly available information
Unhealthy diets represent one of the major risk factors for non‐communicable diseases. There is currently a risk that the political influence of the food industry results in public health policies that do not adequately balance public and commercial interests. This paper aims to develop a framework for categorizing the corporate political activity of the food industry with respect to public health and proposes an approach to systematically identi…
Analysis of the corporate political activity of major food industry actors in Fiji
BACKGROUND: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of mortality in Fiji, a middle-income country in the Pacific. Some food products processed sold and marketed by the food industry are major contributors to the NCD epidemic, and the food industry is widely identified as having strong economic and political power. However, little research has been undertaken on the attempts by the food industry to influence public health-related po…
Systematic examination of publicly-available information reveals the diverse and extensive corporate political activity of the food industry in Australia
The systematic analysis of publicly-available information over a limited period was able to identify diverse and extensive CPA strategies of the food industry in Australia. This approach can contribute to accountability mechanisms for NCD prevention
Corporate political activity of the dairy industry in France
Objective In the present study, we used a structured approach based on publicly available information to identify the corporate political activity (CPA) strategies of three major actors in the dairy industry in France. Design We collected publicly available information from the industry, government and other sources over a 6-month period, from March to August 2015. Data collection and analysis were informed by an existing framework for classifyin…
Alcohol industry involvement in policymaking
Alcohol industry corporate social responsibility initiatives and harmful drinking
Analysis of corporate political activity strategies of the food industry
Objective To identify the corporate political activity (CPA) of major food industry actors in France. Design We followed an approach based on information available in the public domain. Different sources of information, freely accessible to the public, were monitored. Setting/Subjects Data were collected and analysed between March and August 2015. Five actors were selected: ANIA (Association Nationale des Industries Agroalimentaires/National Asso…
Help or Hindrance? The Alcohol Industry and Alcohol Control in Portugal
The influence of the alcohol industry, also known as "corporate political activity" (CPA), is documented as one of the main barriers in implementing effective alcohol control policies. In Portugal, despite an alcohol consumption above the European average, alcohol control does not feature in the current National Health Plan. The present research aimed to identify and describe the CPA of the alcohol industry in Portugal. Publicly-available data pu…
We must have a sufficient level of profitability’
In March 2018, the French parliament launched an inquiry into industrial food and its ‘nutritional quality, role in the emergence of chronic diseases, and the social and environmental impact of its origin’. Our aim was to analyse the food industry’s submissions to the inquiry, particularly discussions around the role that the food industry has played in the non-communicable disease (NCD) epidemic. We studied the submissions of 23 food industry ac…
Public health and the ultra-processed food and drink products industry
Objective To identify examples of the ‘corporate political activity’ (CPA) of the industry producing and selling ultra-processed food and drink products (UPP) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Design Searches were conducted on the national websites and social media accounts of large industry actors. Coding was deductive and based on a framework for classifying the CPA of the food industry. Setting Fifteen countries in Latin America and the Cari…
An overview of the commercial determinants of health
Food industry political practices in Chile
BACKGROUND: In the business literature, the term "corporate political activity" (CPA) refers to the political strategies undertaken by corporations to protect or expend their markets, by influencing, directly or indirectly, the policy process. There is evidence that food industry actors use such political practices, which poses a significant threat to public health. Our study objective was to identify the political practices of the food industry …
“The architecture of the state was transformed in favour of the interests of companies”
BACKGROUND: In Colombia, public health policies to improve food environments, including front-of-pack nutrition labelling and marketing restrictions for unhealthy products, are currently under development. Opposition to these policies by the food industry is currently delaying and weakening these efforts. This opposition is commonly known as 'corporate political activity' (CPA) and includes instrumental (action-based) strategies and discursive (a…
Non-communicable disease governance in the era of the sustainable development goals
BACKGROUND: The UN system's shift towards multistakeholder governance, now embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), invites a broad range of actors, including the private sector, to the policymaking table. Although the tobacco industry is formally excluded from engagement, this approach provides opportunities for other unhealthy commodity industries to influence the World Health Organization's (WHO's) non-communicable disease (NCD) a…
How are frames generated? Insights from the industry lobby against the sugar tax in Ireland
There is a causal link between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and a range of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancers. Despite this, no country in the world has reduced its obesity levels because the factors that drive obesity continue unchanged (Swinburn et al., 2019). One systemic driver is corporate influence on the public policy process. The world's largest food and beverage manufacturers engage …
Food and beverage industry interference in science and policy
Mexico is the largest soft drink market in the world, with high rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Due to strains on the nation’s productivity and healthcare spending, Mexican lawmakers implemented one of the world’s first public health taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in 2014. Because Mexico’s tax was designed to reduce SSB consumption, it faced strong opposition from transnational food and beverage corporations. We analysed previous…
How food and beverage companies leveraged the great recession
The COVID-19 pandemic presents opportunities for transnational food and beverage companies to further consolidate their power within global markets. The top three food and beverage companies, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestl, emerged from the Great Recession more globally dominant than before it. Food and beverage companies leveraged economies in low-income and middle-income countries, which experienced more limited impacts from the Great Recession, …
Obesity, public health ethics and the nanny state
Unhealthy dietary patterns are an important contributor to obesity and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). As with any public health challenge, as well as providing care to affected individuals, whole-population interventions are required to mitigate the environmental determinants of population dietary patterns. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has established recommendations, including a set of low-cost, high-impact ‘best buys’ for gove…
Globalization, first-foods systems transformations and corporate power
BACKGROUND: The global milk formula market has 'boomed' in recent decades, raising serious concerns for breastfeeding, and child and maternal health. Despite these developments, few studies have investigated the global expansion of the baby food industry, nor the market and political practices corporations have used to grow and sustain their markets. In this paper, our aim is to understand the strategies used by the baby food industry to shape 'f…
Breastfeeding, first-food systems and corporate power
BACKGROUND: The aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes (BMS) reduces breastfeeding, and harms child and maternal health globally. Yet forty years after the World Health Assembly adopted the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (The Code), many countries are still to fully implement its provisions into national law. Furthermore, despite The Code, commercial milk formula (CMF) markets have markedly expanded. In this pa…
Beyond nutrition and physical activity
The activities developed by ILSI on scientific integrity principles are part of a broader set of political practices of industry actors to influence public health policy, research, and practice. It is important to learn about and counter these practices as they risk shaping scientific standards to suit the industry's interests rather than public health ones.
A call to advance and translate research into policy on governance, ethics, and conflicts of interest in public health
Efforts to adopt public health policies that would limit the consumption of unhealthy commodities, such as tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food products, are often undermined by private sector actors whose profits depend on the sales of such products. There is ample evidence showing that these corporations not only try to influence public health policy; they also shape research, practice and public opinion. Globalization, trade and investmen…
The second mother’
Most babies in France are fed with infant formula and then commercial complementary foods, many of which are ultra-processed and harmful to health. Internationally, there is opposition by the baby food industry to the introduction of public health policies that would limit the marketing and consumption of such products. Our aim was to identify the key baby food industry actors, describe their history and corporate political activity (CPA) in Fran…
Arguments used by trade associations during the early development of a new front-of-pack nutrition labelling system in Brazil
Objective: To analyse the arguments used by the food industry during the early development of the new nutrition front-of-pack labelling (FOPL) in Brazil. Design: A thematic qualitative analysis was performed using an inductive approach. All data were collected and analysed between December 2018 and April 2019. Data included documents published by the Brazilian government, including industry’s contributions to a technical public consultation, as w…
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