Shona Hilton
University of Glasgow, UK
Biography
Shona completed her PhD in 2004 is Deputy Director of the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit and co-leads the Informing Healthy Public Policy programme. Her research focuses on examining macro level determinants of health such as mass media, political and corporate influences that shape emerging public and policy debates. She has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and is co-convenor of the Scottish BSA Medical Sociology Group.
Abstract
Abstract : The importance of media in framing public and political debates about NCDs