Addressing the Commercial Determinants of Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (ACORDS)
ACORDS is a NIHR Global Health Research (GHR) funded research project, that aims to explore how three unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs), alcohol, ultra-processed food and fossil fuels, influence population health in Sub-Saharan Africa, to inform the development of coherent policies to promote health and sustainable development.
Research
ACORDS consists of 4 Work Packages:
- To map the health impacts of commercial actors and show how strategic links between alcohol, food and fossil fuel industries influence policies to advance their own interests.
- To use economic modelling and evaluation to inform policies to effectively regulate unhealthy commodity industries.
- To examine how health policy processes can be strengthened to manage conflicts between health goals and the interests of these three industries.
- To explore how such research can inform efforts to tackle inequalities in health and in power distribution, working in collaboration with communities and civil society.
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Partners
ACORDS is co-led between the University of Edinburgh and The SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science (PRICELESS SA), with partners the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in Kenya, and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana.
