Industry Symposium

Symposium to Evaluate and Counter Harmful Industry Impacts on Health

January 9, 2024
UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center

Agenda

Introduction and Welcome by Dr. Tracey Woodruff

Opening Remarks and Keynote

Presentations followed by Q&A
A showcase of how the UCSF Industry Documents Library have been used to reveal strategies and tactics corporations use to undermine science and policy and how they have worked together to achieve these aims.

• Dr. Laura Schmidt - Towards an integrated approach to health-harming industries: The case of tobacco-owned food corporations
• Dr. Pamela Ling - Linking Booze and Butts: From Advertising to Policy
• Dr. Cristin Kearns - Industry Influence Over Scientific Information on Breast Cancer
• Dr. Yogi Hendlin - Update on Glyphosate and Chemical Regulatory Anomalies
• Dr. Nicholas Chartres - Case study of PFAS

Overview of the UCSF Industry Documents Library by Chris Shaffer

Panel discussion

• Dr. Rita Redberg, moderator
• Dr. Lisa Bero
• Dr. Marion Nestle
• Dr. Gary Ruskin

Closing remarks

Hosted and sponsored by the following programs and centers at UCSF:

• Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE)
• Environmental Research and Translation for Health (EaRTH) Center
• Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
• Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
• Center for Community Engagement
• Division of Occupational, Environmental & Climate Medicine
• Office of Community & Government Relations
• Parnassus Kalmanovitz Library

A special acknowledgment to our Symposium Planning Committee:

• Cristin Kearns, DDS (School of Dentistry)
• Laura Schmidt, PhD (Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies)
• Nicholas Chartres, PhD (University of Sydney, PRHE)
• Pamela Ling, MD (Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education)
• Tracey Woodruff, PhD (PRHE, EaRTH Center)
• Kristin Shiplet, MSW (PRHE), Meeting Facilitator
• Allison Rozema (PRHE) and Ariel Eastburn McCormick, MA (PRHE), Event Coordination