Can McDonalds Help Promote Global Health? - Don Nutbeam August 10, 2009

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/12/Health_Sustainability_and_Globalization

Don Nutbeam explains that while many oppose the global spread of companies like McDonald's and Coca-Cola, their wide distribution network could be used to improve global health. "Can we as public health activists not try to close McDonald's down but change what they sell?"

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Professor Don Nutbeam, a world-renowned expert in public health, is currently Vice-Chancellor at the University of Southampton. His career has involved senior positions in universities, government, health services and an independent research institute. Between 2000 and 2003 he was Head of Public Health in the UK's Department of Health, leading policy development within the Department and across government on a range of public health challenges.