Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols

Experts / Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols

Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols

Research fellow, The University of Melbourne

Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols is a Commercial Determinants of Health researcher whose program of work focusses on corporations, politics and health. She is currently based in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include corporate power, commercial political practices, privatization and equity, corporatisation of the food system and the political benefits of corporate social responsibility. She completed a DPhil at the University of Melbourne in 2019 that analysed the soft drink industry’s political strategy to position itself as ‘part of the solution’ to obesity.

Who’s lobbying whom? When it comes to alcohol, tobacco, food and gambling firms, we’re in the dark

When we looked for details of who’s lobbying whom in Australia, we found government lobbyist registers largely left us in the dark...

Who’s lobbying whom? When it comes to alcohol, tobacco, food and gambling firms, we’re in the dark

When we looked for details of who’s lobbying whom in Australia, we found government lobbyist registers largely left us in the dark...

By Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Dr Katherine Cullerton