Lisa Bero
Biographic Data
| ID | 1742285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Bero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Bero |
| SIGNATURE | BERO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1893-6651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Restoring Trust in Public Health by Preventing Financial Conflicts of Interest in the Scientific Literature and Government Decision-Making
Restoring Trust in Public Health by Preventing Financial Conflicts of Interest in the Scientific Literature and Government Decision-Making, an article from American Journal of Public Health, Vol 116 Issue 1
The UK public’s trust in tobacco industry involvement in science – an experimental survey
Introduction Despite the tobacco industry’s (TI) decades-long history of manipulating science, Philip Morris International (PMI) now frames itself as a benevolent funder of science and, in 2017, launched a new scientific organisation, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW). With concerns mounting that PMI’s actions are echoing historical TI influence on science, we aimed to understand the extent to which the public trusts PMI’s involvement …
Quantifying Industry Spending on Promotional Events Using Open Payments Data
These findings indicate that an event-centric analysis of Open Payments data is a valid method to understand the scope and quantify spending by pharmaceutical and medical device companies on industry-sponsored promotional events attended by prescribers. Expanding and enforcing the reporting requirements to cover all payments to all registered health professionals would improve the accuracy of estimates of the true extent of all sponsored events a…
Randomised study of the effects of sense of entitlement and conflict of interest contrarianism on researcher decision-making to work with the alcohol industry
Holding contrarian views on conflict of interest could make researchers more open to working with industry. This study shows how it is possible to study researcher decision-making using quantitative experimental methods
Enhancing Methodological Approaches for Studying Health Effects of High-Concentration THC Products
For public health protection, informed decision-making relies on having a robust foundation of evidence concerning risks and their prevention. Application of an evidence-based framework depends on the availability of pertinent, scientifically sound data generated by well-directed and valid research endeavors. In this essay, we address the current state of research in humans and the evidential base concerning high-concentration delta-9-tetrahydroc…
A critical review of methodologies used in pharmaceutical pricing policy analyses
Robust evidence from health policy research has the potential to inform policy-making, but studies have suggested that methodological shortcomings are abundant. We aimed to identify common methodological weaknesses in pharmaceutical pricing policy analyses. A systematic review (SR) of studies examining pharmaceutical pricing policies served as basis for the present analysis. We selected all studies that were included in the SR (n = 56), and those…
Health Effects of High-Concentration Cannabis Products
Background. The concentration of pharmacologically active tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in cannabis products has been increasing over the past decade. Concerns about potential harmful health effects of using these increasingly higher-concentration products have led some states to consider regulation of cannabis product THC concentration. We conducted a scoping review of health effects of high-concentration cannabis products to inform policy on wheth…
Disclosure of funding sources and conflicts of interest in evidence underpinning vitamin D and calcium recommendations in bone health guidelines
Objective: The present study aims to examine the relationship between study funding sources, author conflicts of interest (COI) and conclusions in studies supporting vitamin D and Ca intake cited in bone health guideline recommendations. Design: Cross-sectional Setting: Forty-seven global bone health guidelines with vitamin D and/or Ca recommendations for adults aged 40 years and above. Participants: The evidence cited to support the recommendati…
Value and Challenges of Using Observational Studies in Systematic Reviews of Public Health Interventions
A comparative analysis of the roles and use of evidence in pharmacy policy in Australia
Background Pharmacists have important roles in consumers’ access to medicines and healthcare. Pharmacy policy advocates have recognised that evidence is important but often insufficient for policy change to support expanded roles of pharmacists, but there has been minimal exploration of why this is the case. Aims and objectives To characterise, classify, and describe the types of knowledge that were considered and used in these two pharmacy polic…
Systematic Reviews Should Consider Effects From Both the Population and the Individual Perspective
Understanding professional stakeholders' active resistance to guideline implementation
Variations in processes for guideline adaptation
This project was conducted with ethics approval from The University of Sydney (Project number: 2017/723) and WHO (Protocol ID: 00001)
Comparison of methodological quality between the 2007 and 2019 Canadian dietary guidelines
Objective: With significant shifts in the dietary recommendations between the 2007 and 2019 Canadian dietary guidelines, such as promoting plant-based food intake, reducing highly processed food intake and advocating the practice of food skills, we compared their differences in guideline development methods. Design: Two reviewers used twenty-five guided criteria to appraise the methods used to develop the most recent dietary guidelines against th…
Producing Independent, Systematic Review Evidence
Improving the Quality of Systematic Reviews in Public Health
Philip Morris International-funded ‘Foundation for a Smoke-Free World’
The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World was launched in September 2017 with an announced 12-year funding commitment of $1 billion from Philip Morris International (PMI). The Foundation claims that its governing documents (certificate of incorporation, bylaws and a pledge agreement) ensure that it has an independent research agenda and stringent protections from conflicts of interest. We analysed the text of these governing documents. Their provisio…
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Food industry sponsorship of academic research
Objective To identify scientific publications that result from food industry-funded projects on human health and to characterize their research topics to assess the potential for bias in the research agenda. Design Cross-sectional analysis. Setting/Subjects Food industry-supported projects related to human health were identified from food company websites; publications resulting from the food industry-sponsored projects were identified through a …
The Influence of Industry Sponsorship on the Research Agenda
Background. Corporate interests have the potential to influence public debate and policymaking by influencing the research agenda, namely the initial step in conducting research, in which the purpose of the study is defined and the questions are framed. Objectives. We conducted a scoping review to identify and synthesize studies that explored the influence of industry sponsorship on research agendas across different fields. Search Methods. We sea…
Not All Influences on Science Are Conflicts of Interest
AffiliationsBoth authors are with the Charles Perkins Centre, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Study sponsorship and the nutrition research agenda
Objective To categorize the research topics covered by a sample of randomized controlled trials (RCT) included in systematic reviews of nutrition interventions to address obesity; to describe their funding sources; and to explore the association between funding sources and nutrition research topics. Design Cross-sectional study. Subjects RCT included in Cochrane Reviews of nutrition interventions to address obesity and/or overweight. Results Two …
Study sponsorship and the nutrition research agenda
Objective To categorize the research topics covered by a sample of cohort studies exploring the association between nutrition and obesity; to describe their funding sources; and to explore the association between funding sources and research topics. Design Cross-sectional study. Subjects Cohort studies retrieved from MEDLINE and PubMed published between 2010 and 2016. Results One hundred and twenty-one studies were included. Funding source and co…
Systematic Review
The production of systematic reviews is increasing, but their credibility is under threat. Although systematic reviews are an important tool for policymaking, their influence can be weakened by methodological problems and poor policy relevance. Using Cochrane as an example, I address standards for systematic reviews, the influence of special interests on these reviews, and ways to increase their relevance for policymakers
Barriers and facilitators to the quality use of essential medicines for maternal health in low–resource countries
BACKGROUND: An estimated 800 women die every day due to complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. Complications such as postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) and pre-eclampsia and eclampsia can be prevented by the appropriate use of essential medicines. The objective of this study was to identify the common barriers and facilitators to the availability and use of oxytocin, ergometrine, and magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) - essential medicines indicated …
Public Participation and Claimsmaking
Notice and comment provisions in agency rulemaking provide an important mechanism for the public to contribute to policy. Yet there is limited research on how interest groups participate in this process. California's passage of an ergonomics standard in 1997, the only current state statute in the country, provides a useful, high salience policy case for examining public commentary. Between an initially proposed comprehensive standard and the enac…
Science in the News
News media play critical rôles in public understandings of health issues. Media presentation of scientific evidence seems to involve the `facts', which are then discussed and interpreted by various `experts'. From an ethnomethodological or social constructionist perspective, however, news `facts' themselves are socially constituted. Examining how health science is reported thus offers important insight into the social construction of health polic…
The Creation of Industry Front Groups
We investigated how industries use front groups to combat public health measures by analyzing tobacco industry documents, contemporaneous media reports, journal articles, and press releases regarding “Get Government Off Our Back,” a coalition created by the tobacco industry. RJ Reynolds created Get Government Off Our Back in 1994 to fight federal regulation of tobacco. By keeping its involvement secret, RJ Reynolds was able to draw public and leg…
Legislating “Sound Science”
In the late 1990s, in an effort to dispute the link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, Philip Morris initiated a campaign to legislate “sound science.” The campaign involved enacting data access and data quality laws to obtain previously confidential research data in order to reanalyze it based on industry-generated data quality standards. Philip Morris worked with other corporate interests to form coalitions and workgroups, develop a “dat…
Framing Processes in Public Commentary on US Federal Tobacco Control Regulation
Governmental health policy officials increasingly seek to promote public participation in expert and technical decisions regarding health regulation. The issues of what rôle the public plays in regulatory processes, and how health policy officials orient to public opinion, matter especially in the US context, where public commentary is a requisite component of federal rule-making. This paper examines written commentary as one specific, institutio…
Public Health Under Attack
We describe the tobacco industry’s response to the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study (ASSIST). Tobacco industry documents from the University of California, San Francisco/Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and industry Web sites were analyzed. LexisNexis and the Library of Congress’s Thomas Web site were searched for legislative history. We found that the tobacco industry considered ASSIST a major threat because of its emphasis on policy and…
Tobacco Industry Efforts to Defeat the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Indoor Air Quality Rule
Objectives. We describe tobacco industry strategies to defeat the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Indoor Air Quality rule and the implementation of those strategies. Methods. We analyzed tobacco industry documents, public commentary on, and media coverage of the OSHA rule. Results. The tobacco industry had 5 strategies: (1) maintain scientific debate about the basis of the rule, (2) delay deliberation on the rule, (3) redefin…
Understanding professional stakeholders' active resistance to guideline implementation
Characterization of Geriatric Drug-Related Hospital Readmissions
Although some factors placing geriatric patients at risk for hospitalization have been identified, little is known about drug-related problems that contribute to admissions. This study describes a protocol for characterizing drug-related problems that are associated with hospital readmissions. The protocol achieves significant improvements over other studies because geriatric readmissions to a community hospital are classified and the type of dru…
The Impact of Clinical Pharmacists?? Consultations on Physicians?? Geriatric Drug Prescribing
The impact of clinical pharmacists' consultations on geriatric drug prescribing was studied in a prospective randomized controlled trial of patients 65 years of age and over discharged on 3 or more medications for chronic conditions from a 450-bed community hospital. The pharmacists provided consultation to experimental patients and their physicians at hospital discharge and at periodic intervals for 3 months postdischarge. Using a standardized t…
Tobacco industry response to a risk assessment of environmental tobacco smoke
Tobacco Control 1993; 2: 103-113 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Tobacco industry response to a risk assessment of environmental tobacco smoke L i s a A Bero, Stanton A Glantz Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine and Division of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA L A Bero Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, Uni…
Scientific quality of original research articles on environmental tobacco smoke
In published reports on environmental tobacco smoke, non-peer-reviewed symposium articles tend to be of poor quality. These articles should not be used in scientific, legal, or policy settings unless their quality has been independently assessed
Closing the gap between research and practice
Science in the News
News media play critical rôles in public understandings of health issues. Media presentation of scientific evidence seems to involve the `facts', which are then discussed and interpreted by various `experts'. From an ethnomethodological or social constructionist perspective, however, news `facts' themselves are socially constituted. Examining how health science is reported thus offers important insight into the social construction of health polic…
Cigar magazines
Cigar Aficionado and Smoke broke new ground in tobacco marketing by combining promotion of product, lifestyle, and industry in the same vehicle and linking the medium directly to product related events that extended its reach. The creation and marketing of new tobacco use sites challenges the increasing "isolation" of smokers, and positions cigar use as a socially welcome relief from restrictions. Public health advocates should anticipate and cha…
Policy makers' perspectives on tobacco control advocates' roles in regulation development
There is an important role for tobacco control advocates in the policy development process in regulatory agencies
Science in regulatory policy making
Advocates can support health related regulations by submitting commentary emphasising the sound research base for regulation and countering criticisms of research. National coordination of these efforts could avoid duplication of effort and make more efficient use of limited public health resources
Changing Provider Behavior
Background. Increasing recognition of the failure to translate research findings into practice has led to greater awareness of the importance of using active dissemination and implementation strategies. Although there is a growing body of research evidence about the effectiveness of different strategies, this is not easily accessible to policy makers and professionals. Objectives. To identify, appraise, and synthesize systematic reviews of profes…
Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality
Objective To investigate whether funding of drug studies by the pharmaceutical industry is associated with outcomes that are favourable to the funder and whether the methods of trials funded by pharmaceutical companies differ from the methods in trials with other sources of support. Methods Medline (January 1966 to December 2002) and Embase (January 1980 to December 2002) searches were supplemented with material identified in the references and i…
Implications of the Tobacco Industry Documents for Public Health and Policy
The release of previously secret internal tobacco industry documents has given the public health community unprecedented insight into the industry's motives, strategies, tactics, and data. The documents provide information that is not available from any other source and describe the history of industry activities over the past 50 years. The documents show that the tobacco industry has been engaged in deceiving policy makers and the public for dec…
Framing Processes in Public Commentary on US Federal Tobacco Control Regulation
Governmental health policy officials increasingly seek to promote public participation in expert and technical decisions regarding health regulation. The issues of what rôle the public plays in regulatory processes, and how health policy officials orient to public opinion, matter especially in the US context, where public commentary is a requisite component of federal rule-making. This paper examines written commentary as one specific, institutio…
Tobacco Industry Efforts to Defeat the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Indoor Air Quality Rule
Objectives. We describe tobacco industry strategies to defeat the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Indoor Air Quality rule and the implementation of those strategies. Methods. We analyzed tobacco industry documents, public commentary on, and media coverage of the OSHA rule. Results. The tobacco industry had 5 strategies: (1) maintain scientific debate about the basis of the rule, (2) delay deliberation on the rule, (3) redefin…
Public Health Under Attack
We describe the tobacco industry’s response to the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study (ASSIST). Tobacco industry documents from the University of California, San Francisco/Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and industry Web sites were analyzed. LexisNexis and the Library of Congress’s Thomas Web site were searched for legislative history. We found that the tobacco industry considered ASSIST a major threat because of its emphasis on policy and…
Legislating “Sound Science”
In the late 1990s, in an effort to dispute the link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, Philip Morris initiated a campaign to legislate “sound science.” The campaign involved enacting data access and data quality laws to obtain previously confidential research data in order to reanalyze it based on industry-generated data quality standards. Philip Morris worked with other corporate interests to form coalitions and workgroups, develop a “dat…
Tobacco interests or the public interest
Our longitudinal analysis provides insights into how and when the industry changed its plans and provides public health advocates with potential counterstrategies
Clinical trial registration at Tobacco Control
Submissions to Tobacco Control—the “ins” and “outs”
Public Participation and Claimsmaking
Notice and comment provisions in agency rulemaking provide an important mechanism for the public to contribute to policy. Yet there is limited research on how interest groups participate in this process. California's passage of an ergonomics standard in 1997, the only current state statute in the country, provides a useful, high salience policy case for examining public commentary. Between an initially proposed comprehensive standard and the enac…
The Creation of Industry Front Groups
We investigated how industries use front groups to combat public health measures by analyzing tobacco industry documents, contemporaneous media reports, journal articles, and press releases regarding “Get Government Off Our Back,” a coalition created by the tobacco industry. RJ Reynolds created Get Government Off Our Back in 1994 to fight federal regulation of tobacco. By keeping its involvement secret, RJ Reynolds was able to draw public and leg…
Implementation of a workplace smoking ban in bars
Many local enforcers wished to forfeit their local discretion and believed the workplace smoking ban in bars would be best implemented by a state agency. The potential implication of this study is that, given the complex nature of local politics, smoking bans in bars are best implemented at a broader provincial or national level
The role of public participation in public health initiatives
This is a content analysis of 489 written documents and 142 hearing testimonies, submitted to the World Health Organisation (WHO), regarding the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) during the comment period of 2000. Our aim was to consider the benefits and limitations of inviting public participation. We found that, overall, those who offered commentary were in support of the FCTC and any ensuing treaty, especially if it protected chil…
Evidence and argument in policymaking
Our findings suggest that an emphasis on scientific discourse, relative to other arguments made in legislative testimony, might help produce political outcomes that favor public health
Philip Morris involvement in the development of an air quality laboratory in El Salvador
Air quality studies that have used the FUSADES laboratory should be carefully interpreted, given the support that this laboratory received from Philip Morris
Randomized trials assessing calcium supplementation in healthy children
Objective To explore the relationship between industry sponsorship of Ca supplementation studies in healthy children and study outcomes. Design An electronic search for published randomized controlled trials (RCT) was conducted. We collected data on study design features aimed at reducing bias, statistical significance of results, authors’ conclusions and financial sponsorship of study. We used Fischer’s exact test to examine associations between…
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