Professor Mark Petticrew
Professor of Public Health Evaluation
Professor of Public Health, in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at LSHTM.
Director, NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit.
Research interests include the Commercial Determinants of Health (CDOH), evidence-based policymaking, and public health evaluation.
Member of the Commercial Determinants Research Group (CDRG) here at LSHTM:
See: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/cdrg
The CDRG conducts research on the products and strategies of the tobacco, alcohol, gambling, food, opioid and other industries.
Affiliations
Department of Public Health, Environments and Society
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Centres
Centre for Evaluation
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health
Selected Publications
Developing and Applying a Typology of 'Better for You' Claims on Alcohol Products
2026
Drug and alcohol review
Commercial Determinants and Influences on Physical Activity: Is Physical Activity a Unique Issue?
2026
Journal of physical activity & health
Proposed changes to alcohol licensing should make us question whose interests we're serving in the name of growth.
2025
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
A critical interrogation of the legitimacy of commercial actors in food policy partnerships.
2025
Health promotion international