Kathrin Lauber
Biographic Data
| ID | 6808743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathrin Lauber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathrin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lauber |
| SIGNATURE | LAUBER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0073-3004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Non-governmental organisations and the regulation of harmful commodity industries: Navigating global governance to change corporate practices
Background The crucial role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in advancing effective regulation of health-harming corporate practices is widely accepted, yet how precisely they shape global health governance is not well-understood. While a vast literature has grappled with corporate power and its political, market, and technological dimensions, less attention has been paid to strategic efforts to counter the influence of corporate actors. …
Logics of (dis)engagement: Mapping variation in non-government norms and approaches to alcohol, ultra-processed food and related industries - a case study from Australia
A central question in contemporary health governance is how to prevent undue corporate influence. There is limited practical guidance beyond the tobacco control model. Global partnership approaches have continued to promote alcohol and ultra-processed food (UPF) industry engagement, and these industries have influenced policy and governance in ways that benefit their interests, often to the detriment of strong health regulation. In Australia indu…
Constructing and contesting industry’s role in multistakeholder governance: A qualitative analysis of responses to WHO consultations
BACKGROUND: Multistakeholderism as a norm stating that global public issues should be addressed by all those who affect or are affected by this issue, has become increasingly institutionalised in global governance, including the United Nations (UN) system. Despite an increasing body of evidence showing the risks of corporate capture of multistakeholder governance (MSG) and its related inability to deliver effective public health outcomes, this ap…
Problematizing ultra-processing: Opposition strategy mobility and an emergent challenge to food systems governance
Diet-related diseases pose escalating global challenges despite long-standing concerns and health policy commitments. Developing an alternative to the dominant approach to nutrition research and policy, Brazilian researchers proposed the concept of ultra-processed food (UPF) and the underpinning NOVA classification system. This concept has permeated into policy spaces since its inception in 2010, with several countries including recommendations t…
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive
Though often framed as a technocratic tool, impact assessment is a core element of the political agenda‐setting process. In this article, we show that decisions about what is subject to legislative debate are made during impact assessment; specifically, during the drafting of the assessment report. Using a social process tracing methodology, we analyze the removal from the agenda of provisions for stronger alcohol advertising rules during the rev…
A missed opportunity for public health: How impact assessment shaped EU rules on the marketing of unhealthy commodities to children
The 2015-2018 revision of the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which governs the marketing of alcohol and unhealthy food to minors, failed to align with international best practice. Previous research has explained this ‘missed opportunity’ with reference to deficient political will, difficulties advocating for health, and industry pressure. We explore another explanation: the role of the impact assessment (IA) process in sha…
Why meta-regulation matters for public health: The case of the EU better regulation agenda
Meta-regulation – the rules that govern how individual policies are developed and reviewed – has not received much attention in the study of health policy. We argue that these rules, far from value-free and objective, have significant potential to shape policy outputs and, as such, health outcomes. Channelling and operationalising wider paradigms like neoliberalism, they determine, for instance, what is considered ‘good’ policy, how decisions are…
The law of diminishing returns? The challenge of using freedom of information legislation for health policy research
Commercial use of evidence in public health policy: A critical assessment of food industry submissions to global-level consultations on non-communicable disease prevention
Background Ultra-processed food industry (UPFI) actors have consistently opposed statutory regulation in health policy debates, including at the WHO. They do so most commonly with claims that regulatory policies do not work, will have negative consequences or that alternatives such as self-regulation work well or better. Underlying this are often assertions that industry is aligned with principles of evidence-based policymaking. In this study, we…
Big food and the World Health Organization: A qualitative study of industry attempts to influence global-level non-communicable disease policy
INTRODUCTION: There is an urgent need for effective action to address the over 10 million annual deaths attributable to unhealthy diets. Food industry interference with policies aimed at reducing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is widely documented at the national level but remains under-researched at the global level. Thus, this study explores how ultra-processed food industry actors have attempted to influence NCD policy at WHO. METHODS: A com…
Developing more detailed taxonomies of tobacco industry political activity in low-income and middle-income countries: Qualitative evidence from eight countries
INTRODUCTION: Historical evidence, predominantly from high-income countries (HICs), shows that the tobacco industry uses a recurring set of arguments and techniques when opposing tobacco control policies. This data formed the basis of a model of tobacco industry political activity known as the policy dystopia model (PDM). The PDM has been widely used in tobacco control research and advocacy and has subsequently been shown relevant to other unheal…
The ‘filter fraud’ persists: The tobacco industry is still using filters to suggest lower health risks while destroying the environment
Despite being labelled the “deadliest fraud in the history of human civilisation”,1 filter tips now feature on almost every mass-produced cigarette smoked across the globe.2 After filters first appeared in the 1860s as an attempt to protect against tobacco flakes entering the mouth,3 the tobacco industry introduced modern cellulose acetate cigarette filters in the 1950s to alleviate public concerns about smoking-related lung cancer.4 Filters and …
Non-communicable disease governance in the era of the sustainable development goals: A qualitative analysis of food industry framing in WHO consultations
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…
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Non-communicable disease governance in the era of the sustainable development goals: A qualitative analysis of food industry framing in WHO consultations
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…
Commercial use of evidence in public health policy: A critical assessment of food industry submissions to global-level consultations on non-communicable disease prevention
Background Ultra-processed food industry (UPFI) actors have consistently opposed statutory regulation in health policy debates, including at the WHO. They do so most commonly with claims that regulatory policies do not work, will have negative consequences or that alternatives such as self-regulation work well or better. Underlying this are often assertions that industry is aligned with principles of evidence-based policymaking. In this study, we…
Big food and the World Health Organization: A qualitative study of industry attempts to influence global-level non-communicable disease policy
INTRODUCTION: There is an urgent need for effective action to address the over 10 million annual deaths attributable to unhealthy diets. Food industry interference with policies aimed at reducing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is widely documented at the national level but remains under-researched at the global level. Thus, this study explores how ultra-processed food industry actors have attempted to influence NCD policy at WHO. METHODS: A com…
Developing more detailed taxonomies of tobacco industry political activity in low-income and middle-income countries: Qualitative evidence from eight countries
INTRODUCTION: Historical evidence, predominantly from high-income countries (HICs), shows that the tobacco industry uses a recurring set of arguments and techniques when opposing tobacco control policies. This data formed the basis of a model of tobacco industry political activity known as the policy dystopia model (PDM). The PDM has been widely used in tobacco control research and advocacy and has subsequently been shown relevant to other unheal…
The ‘filter fraud’ persists: The tobacco industry is still using filters to suggest lower health risks while destroying the environment
Despite being labelled the “deadliest fraud in the history of human civilisation”,1 filter tips now feature on almost every mass-produced cigarette smoked across the globe.2 After filters first appeared in the 1860s as an attempt to protect against tobacco flakes entering the mouth,3 the tobacco industry introduced modern cellulose acetate cigarette filters in the 1950s to alleviate public concerns about smoking-related lung cancer.4 Filters and …
Why meta-regulation matters for public health: The case of the EU better regulation agenda
Meta-regulation – the rules that govern how individual policies are developed and reviewed – has not received much attention in the study of health policy. We argue that these rules, far from value-free and objective, have significant potential to shape policy outputs and, as such, health outcomes. Channelling and operationalising wider paradigms like neoliberalism, they determine, for instance, what is considered ‘good’ policy, how decisions are…
The law of diminishing returns? The challenge of using freedom of information legislation for health policy research
A missed opportunity for public health: How impact assessment shaped EU rules on the marketing of unhealthy commodities to children
The 2015-2018 revision of the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which governs the marketing of alcohol and unhealthy food to minors, failed to align with international best practice. Previous research has explained this ‘missed opportunity’ with reference to deficient political will, difficulties advocating for health, and industry pressure. We explore another explanation: the role of the impact assessment (IA) process in sha…
Constructing and contesting industry’s role in multistakeholder governance: A qualitative analysis of responses to WHO consultations
BACKGROUND: Multistakeholderism as a norm stating that global public issues should be addressed by all those who affect or are affected by this issue, has become increasingly institutionalised in global governance, including the United Nations (UN) system. Despite an increasing body of evidence showing the risks of corporate capture of multistakeholder governance (MSG) and its related inability to deliver effective public health outcomes, this ap…
Problematizing ultra-processing: Opposition strategy mobility and an emergent challenge to food systems governance
Diet-related diseases pose escalating global challenges despite long-standing concerns and health policy commitments. Developing an alternative to the dominant approach to nutrition research and policy, Brazilian researchers proposed the concept of ultra-processed food (UPF) and the underpinning NOVA classification system. This concept has permeated into policy spaces since its inception in 2010, with several countries including recommendations t…
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive
Though often framed as a technocratic tool, impact assessment is a core element of the political agenda‐setting process. In this article, we show that decisions about what is subject to legislative debate are made during impact assessment; specifically, during the drafting of the assessment report. Using a social process tracing methodology, we analyze the removal from the agenda of provisions for stronger alcohol advertising rules during the rev…
Non-governmental organisations and the regulation of harmful commodity industries: Navigating global governance to change corporate practices
Background The crucial role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in advancing effective regulation of health-harming corporate practices is widely accepted, yet how precisely they shape global health governance is not well-understood. While a vast literature has grappled with corporate power and its political, market, and technological dimensions, less attention has been paid to strategic efforts to counter the influence of corporate actors. …
Logics of (dis)engagement: Mapping variation in non-government norms and approaches to alcohol, ultra-processed food and related industries - a case study from Australia
A central question in contemporary health governance is how to prevent undue corporate influence. There is limited practical guidance beyond the tobacco control model. Global partnership approaches have continued to promote alcohol and ultra-processed food (UPF) industry engagement, and these industries have influenced policy and governance in ways that benefit their interests, often to the detriment of strong health regulation. In Australia indu…
Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Public health (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (5 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Health services research (5 works)