Benjamin Hawkins

TL;DR: The Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola concluded that major reforms are both warranted and feasible and a roadmap of ten interrelated recommendations across four thematic areas is outlined.

TL;DR: A systematic review of empirical studies that examined the influence of key features of political systems and institutional mechanisms on evidence use, and contextual factors that may contribute to the politicisation of health evidence highlights the need for a more explicit engagement with the political and institutional factors affecting the use of healthevidence in decision-making.

TL;DR: Alcohol industry actors are highly strategic, rhetorically sophisticated and well organized in influencing national policymaking, indicating that industry actors seek to influence policy in two principal ways.

TL;DR: Analysis on frames, framing processes and frame conflict can help researchers and policymakers to understand opaque and highly charged policy issues, which may facilitate the resolution of protracted policy controversies.

TL;DR: Unhealthy commodity industries actively design and shape the NCD policy system, intervene at different levels of the system to gain agency over policy and politics, and legitimize their presence in public health policy decisions.