Public health researcher Anna Gilmore is a big picture person whose research focuses
on the influence of major corporations on health and finding and evaluating solutions
to their negative impacts. “Commercial actors influence health in all sorts of ways,
both positive and negative. For example, evidence shows major corporations have influenced
our political and economic systems, our approaches to policy making, as well as specific
policies and diverse environments. Health is determined by all those broader factors,
known as ‘determinants of health’, and that s really what I look at, with a focus
on commercial actors”, she explains.