Module 11 - Monitoring and Countering Industry Interference

Course Overview

The course will guide you through practical approaches to industry monitoring, including what to track, where to find industry activities, and how to build a strong monitoring strategy. You will also examine real-world counter-strategies such as media advocacy, policy engagement, digital campaigns, and legal measures. By the end of this module, you will understand how to safeguard healthy diet policies and strengthen accountability within the food system.

FAQ

Industry interference refers to actions taken by corporations to influence public policy in ways that protect their commercial interests, often at the expense of public health.

Monitoring helps identify harmful tactics, expose misinformation, support advocacy efforts, and protect public health policies from being weakened or delayed.

Key tactics include lobbying, media manipulation, false research, corporate social responsibility campaigns, front groups, litigation, sponsorships, and partnerships with government agencies.

Industry activities can be tracked through digital media, traditional media, corporate websites, annual reports, public events, schools, social media platforms, and regulatory filings.

Monitoring provides evidence to strengthen advocacy campaigns, counter misleading narratives, inform policy debates, and support enforcement actions.

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Instructor

Akinbode Oluwafemi

Public Health, Policy Advocacy, Environmental Justice

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Akinbode Oluwafemi, Executive Director, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA). He has more than two decades of professional experience spanning grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, public health, environmental justice, and movement building across Africa. He is the premier winner of the Bloomberg Global Philanthropists Award for Tobacco Control in the Tobacco Industry Monitoring Category.