Laura Nixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4977178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Nixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Nixon |
| SIGNATURE | NIXON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lori Dorfman, Andrew Cheyne, Pamela Mejia, and Laura Nixon are with Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA. Mark A. Gottlieb and Lissy C. Friedman are with the Public Health Advocacy Institute, Boston, MA. Richard A. Daynard is with Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA. |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6677-1420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Interconnected factors influencing family health and wellbeing in overcrowded homes and points for intervention – A qualitative study in London
Household overcrowding impacts family health and wellbeing • Multiple factors associated with living in overcrowding —from individual to societal levels—interact to influence outcomes • Targeting these factors and their interactions may improve outcomes for overcrowded families unable to move Household overcrowding contributes to poor familial health/wellbeing and is driven by a shortage of affordable housing. Despite being defined by spatial con…
Equity Arguments in News Reporting on School Nutrition Policy
Big Data and the transformation of food and beverage marketing: Undermining efforts to reduce obesity
The confluence of new ways to quickly gather, analyze, and use large volumes of information – so-called ‘Big Data’ – coupled with the widespread adoption of digital devices, has transformed marketing, including food marketing. However, the effects on health of the marriage between Big Data and digital food marketing are largely un-researched and unknown. In the midst of ongoing global concern about obesity, there is a need for public health schol…
The shift in framing of food and beverage product reformulation in the United States from 1980 to 2015
Food and beverage product reformulation is a public health nutrition policy of recent prominence; it is a so-called ‘win-win’ policy, as unlike other nutrition policies, it has the potential to also benefit the food and beverage industry. However, reformulation has also been criticized as being driven by industry interests. In order to inform future policy debates about reformulation, we sought to investigate how and why reformulation became a pu…
Fast-Food Fights: News Coverage of Local Efforts to Improve Food Environments Through Land-Use Regulations, 2000–2013
Zoning and other land-use policies are a promising but controversial strategy to improve community food environments. To understand how these policies are debated, we searched existing databases and the Internet and analyzed news coverage and legal documentation of efforts to restrict fast-food restaurants in 77 US communities in 2001 to 2013. Policies intended to improve community health were most often proposed in urban, racially diverse commun…
We’re Part of the Solution”: Evolution of the Food and Beverage Industry’s Framing of Obesity Concerns Between 2000 and 2012
We investigated how industry claim-makers countered concerns about obesity and other nutrition-related diseases in newspaper coverage from 2000, the year before the US Surgeon General’s Call to Action on obesity, through 2012. We found that the food and beverage industry evolved in its response. The defense arguments were made by trade associations, industry-funded nonprofit groups, and individual companies representing the packaged food industry…
Big Soda’s long shadow: News coverage of local proposals to tax sugar-sweetened beverages in Richmond, El Monte and Telluride
In 2012 and 2013, Richmond and El Monte, CA, and Telluride, CO, became the first communities in the country to vote on citywide sugary drink taxes. In the face of massive spending from the soda industry, all three proposals failed at the ballot box, but the vigorous public debates they inspired provide valuable insights for future policy efforts. We analyzed local and national news coverage of the three proposals and found that pro-tax arguments …
Cigarettes Become a Dangerous Product: Tobacco in the Rearview Mirror, 1952–1965
Tobacco control’s unparalleled success comes partly from advocates broadening the focus of responsibility beyond the smoker to include industry and government. To learn how this might apply to other issues, we examined how early tobacco control events were framed in news, legislative testimony, and internal tobacco industry documents. Early debate about tobacco is stunning for its absence of the personal responsibility rhetoric prominent today, f…
Dorfman et al. Respond
Marginalized Memories: Carmen Sylva in Llandudno
Carmen Sylva (1843–1916) was a prolific authoress and the first Queen of Romania, whose life and work is currently marginalized in modern criticism. Sylva visited Britain on numerous occasions, contributing to regional culture and society. Her presence in Llandudno in 1890 was celebrated as a visit of particular significance. This article investigates her visit to the Welsh seaside resort, discussing the evidence of her stay and participation in …
The Origins of Personal Responsibility Rhetoric in News Coverage of the Tobacco Industry
The tobacco industry consistently frames smoking as a personal issue rather than the responsibility of cigarette companies. To identify when personal responsibility framing became a major element of the tobacco industry's discourse, we analyzed news coverage from 1966 to 1991. Industry representatives began to regularly use these arguments in 1977. By the mid 1980s, this frame dominated the industry's public arguments. This chronology illustrates…
Religion and Diversity in Canada
Many Canadians are pleased to think of their country as being open to religious and cultural diversity. This collection shows just how closed Canadian society has been throughout most of its history and, in some respects, still is. In the opening chapter, Peter Beyer provides a summary of the history of discriminatory policies of the Canadian government toward Native Canadian cultural and religious practice and toward nonwhite immigration. Change…
Cigarettes Become a Dangerous Product: Tobacco in the Rearview Mirror, 1952–1965
Tobacco control’s unparalleled success comes partly from advocates broadening the focus of responsibility beyond the smoker to include industry and government. To learn how this might apply to other issues, we examined how early tobacco control events were framed in news, legislative testimony, and internal tobacco industry documents. Early debate about tobacco is stunning for its absence of the personal responsibility rhetoric prominent today, f…
We’re Part of the Solution”: Evolution of the Food and Beverage Industry’s Framing of Obesity Concerns Between 2000 and 2012
We investigated how industry claim-makers countered concerns about obesity and other nutrition-related diseases in newspaper coverage from 2000, the year before the US Surgeon General’s Call to Action on obesity, through 2012. We found that the food and beverage industry evolved in its response. The defense arguments were made by trade associations, industry-funded nonprofit groups, and individual companies representing the packaged food industry…
The Origins of Personal Responsibility Rhetoric in News Coverage of the Tobacco Industry
The tobacco industry consistently frames smoking as a personal issue rather than the responsibility of cigarette companies. To identify when personal responsibility framing became a major element of the tobacco industry's discourse, we analyzed news coverage from 1966 to 1991. Industry representatives began to regularly use these arguments in 1977. By the mid 1980s, this frame dominated the industry's public arguments. This chronology illustrates…
Religion and Diversity in Canada
Many Canadians are pleased to think of their country as being open to religious and cultural diversity. This collection shows just how closed Canadian society has been throughout most of its history and, in some respects, still is. In the opening chapter, Peter Beyer provides a summary of the history of discriminatory policies of the Canadian government toward Native Canadian cultural and religious practice and toward nonwhite immigration. Change…
Big Soda’s long shadow: News coverage of local proposals to tax sugar-sweetened beverages in Richmond, El Monte and Telluride
In 2012 and 2013, Richmond and El Monte, CA, and Telluride, CO, became the first communities in the country to vote on citywide sugary drink taxes. In the face of massive spending from the soda industry, all three proposals failed at the ballot box, but the vigorous public debates they inspired provide valuable insights for future policy efforts. We analyzed local and national news coverage of the three proposals and found that pro-tax arguments …
Cigarettes Become a Dangerous Product: Tobacco in the Rearview Mirror, 1952–1965
Tobacco control’s unparalleled success comes partly from advocates broadening the focus of responsibility beyond the smoker to include industry and government. To learn how this might apply to other issues, we examined how early tobacco control events were framed in news, legislative testimony, and internal tobacco industry documents. Early debate about tobacco is stunning for its absence of the personal responsibility rhetoric prominent today, f…
Dorfman et al. Respond
Marginalized Memories: Carmen Sylva in Llandudno
Carmen Sylva (1843–1916) was a prolific authoress and the first Queen of Romania, whose life and work is currently marginalized in modern criticism. Sylva visited Britain on numerous occasions, contributing to regional culture and society. Her presence in Llandudno in 1890 was celebrated as a visit of particular significance. This article investigates her visit to the Welsh seaside resort, discussing the evidence of her stay and participation in …
The Origins of Personal Responsibility Rhetoric in News Coverage of the Tobacco Industry
The tobacco industry consistently frames smoking as a personal issue rather than the responsibility of cigarette companies. To identify when personal responsibility framing became a major element of the tobacco industry's discourse, we analyzed news coverage from 1966 to 1991. Industry representatives began to regularly use these arguments in 1977. By the mid 1980s, this frame dominated the industry's public arguments. This chronology illustrates…
Fast-Food Fights: News Coverage of Local Efforts to Improve Food Environments Through Land-Use Regulations, 2000–2013
Zoning and other land-use policies are a promising but controversial strategy to improve community food environments. To understand how these policies are debated, we searched existing databases and the Internet and analyzed news coverage and legal documentation of efforts to restrict fast-food restaurants in 77 US communities in 2001 to 2013. Policies intended to improve community health were most often proposed in urban, racially diverse commun…
We’re Part of the Solution”: Evolution of the Food and Beverage Industry’s Framing of Obesity Concerns Between 2000 and 2012
We investigated how industry claim-makers countered concerns about obesity and other nutrition-related diseases in newspaper coverage from 2000, the year before the US Surgeon General’s Call to Action on obesity, through 2012. We found that the food and beverage industry evolved in its response. The defense arguments were made by trade associations, industry-funded nonprofit groups, and individual companies representing the packaged food industry…
Big Data and the transformation of food and beverage marketing: Undermining efforts to reduce obesity
The confluence of new ways to quickly gather, analyze, and use large volumes of information – so-called ‘Big Data’ – coupled with the widespread adoption of digital devices, has transformed marketing, including food marketing. However, the effects on health of the marriage between Big Data and digital food marketing are largely un-researched and unknown. In the midst of ongoing global concern about obesity, there is a need for public health schol…
The shift in framing of food and beverage product reformulation in the United States from 1980 to 2015
Food and beverage product reformulation is a public health nutrition policy of recent prominence; it is a so-called ‘win-win’ policy, as unlike other nutrition policies, it has the potential to also benefit the food and beverage industry. However, reformulation has also been criticized as being driven by industry interests. In order to inform future policy debates about reformulation, we sought to investigate how and why reformulation became a pu…
Equity Arguments in News Reporting on School Nutrition Policy
Interconnected factors influencing family health and wellbeing in overcrowded homes and points for intervention – A qualitative study in London
Household overcrowding impacts family health and wellbeing • Multiple factors associated with living in overcrowding —from individual to societal levels—interact to influence outcomes • Targeting these factors and their interactions may improve outcomes for overcrowded families unable to move Household overcrowding contributes to poor familial health/wellbeing and is driven by a shortage of affordable housing. Despite being defined by spatial con…
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