Money Power Health with Nason Maani
Money Power Health with Nason Maani explores how commercial forces, wealth, and power shape our health. Hosted by Dr Nason Maani, each episode features conversations with guests from a range of perspectives. The series examines the political, economic, and social drivers behind health inequities. It aims to make sense of the commercial determinants of health and their impact on populations.
Episodes
Episode 19: Commercial power, conflicts of interest and health policy with Elena Whitham
Hello everyone and welcome back to Money Power Health.Today's episode is about what it actually looks like, from the inside, when commercial interests try to shape health policy. My guest is Elena Whitham, who served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament and as Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy in the Scottish Government. That role put her at the intersection of highly contested territory in
Episode 18: UK NHS privatisation, health and the public interest with David Rowland
Hello everyone and welcome back to Money Power Health. Before we delve into this episode, you will also see that we have launched a substack with essays on the themes of money power and health. You can sign up to that and read them, for free and ad free, in the link in the show notes. Today’s episode is about the quiet but profound transformation of the UKs national health service. This has been l
Episode 17: Business Schools with Norah Campbell
Hello and welcome back to Money Power Health.This week we are discussing business schools with Dr. Nora Campbell, Associate Professor of Marketing at Trinity Business School, Dublin, where she teaches in management theory, and science and technology studies. We delve into the historical role of business schools, the evolution of management theories, and the demands of current students. Norah share
Episode 16: Prisons, health and justice with Chantal Edge and Nicola Dennis
Hello and welcome back to Money Power Health. Justice and health are deeply intertwined, as the same social and economic factors that can significantly impact individual and population health, can also influence a person's likelihood of interacting with the justice system. Prisons are places with some of the most profound inequalities in health outcomes, and if we care about the ways in which
Episode 15: Addressing research/action gaps with pracademic Dr Gayle Amul
Hello, and welcome back to Money, Power, Health. Today we’re talking about research and advocacy in tobacco and alcohol policy with someone seeking to hold the industries in question accountable—not just through research, but through advocacy and policy engagement.My guest is Dr. Gayle Amul, a researcher and advocate whose work focuses on alcohol and tobacco industry interference in public health
Episode 14: Forever chemicals, lobbying and transparency with Vicky Cann from Corporate Europe Observatory
Hello everyone and welcome back to Money Power Health.This week, we are discussing so called “forever chemicals” or PFAS, a group of more than 10,000 man-made chemicals used in a wide range of industrial applications and consumer products. Of core interest to public health, they are resistant to degradation, meaning they persist in the environment, contaminating water and soil, and ending up in o
Episode 13: Industry-funded school education programmes with May van Schalkwyk
Hi everyone and welcome back to Money Power Health. We often tend to think of our health as the product of our own energies, something we alone are accountable for. But in reality, our health is to a large degree shaped by the conditions we find ourselves in, the quality of our air, the wealth of our parents, the food we have access to, our opportunities for work, our time for exercise. Schools an
Episode 12: Commercially driven norms around drinking with Emeka Dumbili
The alcohol industry is a significant commercial determinant of health, shaping global consumption patterns through aggressive marketing, lobbying against regulation, and expanding into new markets, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. With its substantial influence on policymaking and public perceptions, the industry has contributed to a global burden of alcohol-related harm, includi
Episode 11: GPs at the Deep End with David Blane
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Money, Power, Health with me, Nason Maani. This week we are speaking to Dr David Blane, a GP in Pollokshaws and Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, and the academic coordinator of the Deep End GP network. As you know, in this podcast we have spoken about the ways in which the wider physical and social environments people find themselves in can
Episode 10: Money, Power and Gambling with Rebecca Cassidy
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Money Power Health.
Today I have the great privilege of speaking to Rebecca Cassidy, professor of social anthropology at Goldsmiths, on the gambling industry and her experience of working on gambling industry research.
The gambling industry has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, particularly through online and mobile gaming, and is increasingly con
Episode 9: The Power of PR with Grant Ennis
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“Think global, act local!” “Be the change you want to see in the world!” “Every little bit counts!” We can all get on board with such sentiments, right? Well, todays guest Grant Ennis, would question that. He is the author of the book "Dark PR: How corporate disinformation undermines our health and the environment". In this new book, drawi
Episode 8: Public health, inequality and resilience with Jihad Makhoul
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All three themes very much play into the health and wellbeing of the people of Lebanon, which has been assailed by a multi-pronged crisis for the past few years. Lebanon hosts an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees, the largest number of refugees per capita of any country, and has experienced a profound combination of socioeconomic turndown
Episode 7: Advancing Public Health in Local Government with Greg Fell
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As we have been discussing in previous episodes, health is to a large degree shaped by our social and physical environments. Public Health, as defined by Acheson, is “the science and art of promoting health, preventing disease, and prolonging life through the organized efforts of society.” Some of that art and science, in fact a lot of it
Episode 6: The firearm industry, power and the law with Jon Lowy
The firearm industry is, without question, a commercial determinant of health. It manufactures and markets harmful products, and companies actively compete with each other on features like round count, ease of reloading, and lethality. More civilian-owned firearms, of more types, with more accessories like scopes or red dot sights, more bullets and magazines, in more locations, is good for busines
Episode 5: Going upstream in health data and decisions with Salma Abdalla
Hi everyone, and welcome back to money power health, a podcast on how our health is influenced by wealth and power. As we discussed in our introductory episode with Sandro Galea, one of the main things that determines our health is the distribution of resources and opportunity, yet, when we think of data on health that might better inform decisions, we tend to focus on healthcare related data, on
Episode 4: Commercial influence on science with Lisa Bero
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Money Power Health.
As you know, this podcast is about money, and power, and the role they play in shaping population health. I am particularly interested in the commercial determinants of health, the activities of the private sector, and the structures it operates in, that shape health directly and indirectly.
One of the values of taking a commercial determinan
Episode 3: Social Media with Nora Kenworthy and Marco Zenone
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As I mentioned in the first episode, part of the goal of this podcast is to bear witness to some of the hidden forces that shape health, and the extent to which they relate to money and power. Sometimes it is hard to perceive, but everything from the quality of the air you are breathing, to the bacterial count in your tap water, or your proxi
Episode 2: Conducting research in public health with Martin McKee
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This week, we are speaking to Professor Martin McKee, on his research in public health, the responsibility to communicate public health to wider audiences, including the media, and some advice for early career researchers on specialisation and collaboration.
Martin is a Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medici
Episode 1: Introducing Money Power Health, with special guest Sandro Galea
Welcome to Money Power Health, a podcast on how our health is influenced by commercial forces, wealth and power, hosted by Dr. Nason Maani, lecturer in inequalities and global health policy at the University of Edinburghs Global Health Policy Unit.
In this first episode, with the help of guest Professor Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University School of Public Health, we introduce the podcast
