The power of finance and investments for addressing the commercial determinants of health

Perspectives & Insights

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SESSION DETAILS

Tuesday 23 April, 2pm - 3:30pm AEST
Breakout 1

This session aims to raise awareness of successful examples of influencing financial institutions and investors and other commercial actors to consider and impact health in their operations and decision-making.

Participants will be encourage to explore the benefits and risks of working with commercial actors to support health and understand of the role health promoting agencies have in influencing commercial actors.

Following this session participants will have an:

  • Awareness of successful examples of influencing financial institutions and investors and other commercial actors to consider and impact health in their operations and decision-making.

  • Understanding of the benefits and risks of working with commercial actors to support health. 

  • Understanding of the role health promoting agencies have in influencing commercial actors.

SESSION DESCRIPTION

Michelle Murray
Executive Manager, Health Promotion Systems, VicHealth, Australia

Bonnie Matheson
Manager, Commercial Determinants of Health, VicHealth, Australia

Caterina Giorgi
Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Alcohol Research & Education, Australia

SESSION MODERATOR

Catherine Howarth
Chief Executive Officer, ShareAction UK

Tay Choon Hong
Chief Executive Officer, Health Promotion Board, Singapore

Adnan Hyder
Senior Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, USA

Ella Robinson
Senior Impact and Ethics Analyst, Australian Ethical Investment

INVITED SPEAKERS

We gratefully acknowledge the following organisations for providing travel and accommodation support for international speakers in this session.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS