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Amber van den Akker

@ambervandenakker.bsky.social
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Research associate at the University of Bath | Researching commercial influence on public health policy and multi-stakeholder partnerships.

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Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
✨ The first three episodes of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco are out now! ✨ 🔔 Subscribe on your preferred podcast platform and join us as we hold this deadly industry to account. www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/de... @uniofbath.bsky.social
Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco

First three episodes live now!
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"Efforts to restrict the production of plastic “forever chemicals” that could threaten public health have been met with a large-scale coordinated attack by the multibillion pound industries that make and use them" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Industry using ‘tobacco playbook’ to fend off ‘forever chemicals’ regulation
Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter arguments made by fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation
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Kathrin Lauber @kat-lauber.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Excited to announce I‘ve been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship - starting this month, I‘ll be exploring why the meat production & consumption remains marginal in global debates about climate mitigation 🌱🐄 @leverhulme.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
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Amber van den Akker @ambervandenakker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Feeling very honoured to have received the Ilona Kickbusch Early Career Research. A massive thank you to the panel at @healthpromint.bsky.social @docsamantha.bsky.social and to my co-authors Alice Fabbri, Adam Bertscher, Anna Gilmore, Cecile Knai, @nickcavill.bsky.social and @harryrutter.bsky.social
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Global science review concludes tackling climate change, nature loss & food insecurity as ' siloed' separate issues won't work Biodiversity loss is costing economy up to a quarter of global GDP, $25trillion Delayed action on biodiversity could double eventual costs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
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Dr Alex Barker @abbarkerpsych.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Transparency of financial conflicts of interest does not mean there is no vested interest 👏🙌
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