2021 as Benjamin Button
On the Fourth Day of Christmas, I came to a decision: I could no longer put off sorting through my vast, ever-accruing backlog of ‘news’...
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Lead author on the Obesity Health Alliance's Turning the Tide: A 10-year Healthy Weight Strategy, published September 2021 after a year-long series of expert meetings and collaborative drafting process
WHO/Europe:
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2019: Major report on digital marketing to children, drawing on an expert meeting in Moscow in 2018: Monitoring and Restricting Digital Marketing of Unhealthy Products to Children and Adolescents.
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Smaller-scale meeting reports:
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2021: videogames and NCDs (forthcoming)
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2021: the out-of-home food sector (forthcoming)
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2018: meeting of WHO/Europe Collaborating Centres working on the risk factors and surveillance of NCDs
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Access to Nutrition Initiative
ANTI has been a major client since 2019, with projects including:
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the first ever UK Retailer Index 2022 (forthcoming, Q1/2 2022), an assessment of major UK supermarkets' actions on nutrition and health (the precursor to which, the Supermarket Spotlight 2020, I also wrote) and
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a series of four major reports on the global food industry and Covid-19, during the first 18 months of the pandemic, including:
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A Country-level Response - India, Mexico and Nigeria (February 2021)
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The Time for Change (July 2021)
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Journal articles
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Not an "either/or": integrating mental health and psychosocial support within non-communicable disease prevention and care in humanitarian response' (2021) Journal of Global Health (B. Gyawali, M.C. Haraysm, S. Hassan, K. Cooper et al.)
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'Obesity, SDGs and ROOTS: a framework for impact' (2021) Curr Obes Rep 10: 54–60 (J. Ralston, K. Cooper, J. Powys)
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'Obesity: a ghost at the feast of the Sustainable Development Goals' (2020) Curr Obes Rep 9: 470–8 (T. Lobstein and K. Cooper)
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'Dystopia, utopia - or somewhere in between: Healthy City Design 2019, London, 14–15 October' (2020) Cities & Health 4(1): 50–3 (K. Cooper)
NCDs in humanitarian settings:
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2020/21: supported the ICRC's Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support on a project on the integration of NCDs and mental health in humanitarian settings, culminating in a roundtable in summer 2021 involving Red Cross Movement colleagues, WHO and various international NGOs. The scoping report on the project is not yet available but I coauthored a peer-reviewed article with some of the partners.
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2018: worked with the Danish Red Cross, NCDFREE and the ICRC to develop a 'bootcamp' meeting on NCD care and prevention in humanitarian settings. I rapporteured the bootcamp and drew up the final report.
Digital marketing to children
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2020: report for VicHealth as part of the Covid-19 response: Under the Radar: Harmful Industries' Digital Marketing to Children
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2019: WHO/Europe report (see above)
NCD Alliance:
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In 2017, I was commissioned by the NCD Alliance and Novartis Foundation, Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in Workplace Settings in Low- and Middle-income Countries:
A Call to Action and Practical Guidance. I am lead author on the report, which I was invited to launch at the Global NCD Alliance Forum in the United Arab Emirates in December
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Lead rapporteur at Global NCD Alliance Forums (UAE) in 2017 and 2020
UK Working Group on NCDs:
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Roundtable summary: Acting Early, Saving Lives: Prevention and Promotion as Key Aspects of UHC (roundtable with Chatham House, September 2019)
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Briefing paper Non-communicable Diseases: A Global Health and Development Priority (for Parliamentary event, May 2018)
Other reports/briefings include:
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Reports for Wilton Park events:
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Global Action Plan on the private sector's response to National Clean Air Day (that fed into this Celebration Report).
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White paper written for C3 Collaborating for Health on local third-sector action to improve young people's chances of a healthy life in the UK.
Katy entirely surpassed my expectations of what could be achieved in the time available for the evaluation of corporate involvement in National Clean Air Day. Katy’s tenacity, speed of movement and clarity of insights were matched by her knack of getting busy people to welcome conversations with her. The report provided by Katy was not only well written and comprehensive – she had gone well beyond just recording the thoughts of 50 campaign participants to draw valuable insights from this data. Katy identified trends, and suggested how the campaign could evolve based on this data, which will enable us to increase the number of businesses participating in next year’s campaign, and to enhance the effect that participating businesses have on combating air pollution. I’d have no hesitation in setting Katy greater challenges to work on! - Chris Large, Global Action Plan
I have also been commissioned to write blogs for others (in addition to my own musings):
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Obesity and the SDGs: an opportunity hidden in plain sight (World Obesity) 24 September 2019
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NCD community: be informed, inspired, incentivised, indignant, and incensed (NCD Alliance) 11 December 2017
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Putting a voice to NCDs while breaking out of silos (NCD Alliance) 10 December 2017
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Consensus building around 2018 HLM on NCDs advocacy priorities (NCD Alliance) 9 December 2017
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Brockley through a new lens: #Brockley365 (contribution to A Sense of Place, Catherine Max Consulting) 24 September 2017
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Air pollution - a tale of two cities (NCD Alliance) 21 September 2017
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Human rights and NCDs: integrated and indivisible (NCD Alliance) 13 July 2017
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Physical activity: the miracle drug (C3) 10 May 2017
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Overcoming the challenges facing 'healthy lives' interventions (C3) 2 May 2017
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Green reads: Talking Climate - From Research to Practice in Public Engagement (book review for NESSE - the Network of Early-Career Sustainable Scientists and Engineer) 10 March 2017
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Using digital data to drive behaviour change in local communities (C3) 8 February 2017
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