Media engagements & Presentations

Aisha Moolla and Agnes Erzse represented PRICELESS at the DOHaD 2022 in Vancouver, Canada

Research shows voluntary commitments by big food companies on marketing unhealthy foods don’t work

New research from Wits University’s Centre for Health Economics and Decision Sciences, just published in Nature Food, shows that voluntary commitments by major food and drinks companies to take actions in support of public health don’t work.

For decades, the messaging around weight loss and healthy eating has said that what we eat is a choice. But In South Africa, ‘choosing’ to eat healthily is more complicated than it seems and big food and beverage companies have been getting around industry regulations and legislation using a tactic called Delay, Dilute, Delegitimise to make a profit off of unhealthy foods causing malnutrition diseases.

How obesity plaques the private sector & burdens Health Economics in SA

The team at the research to policy unit, PRICELESS SA, has been highly productive over the past few months, with several important publications that relate to NHI in different ways. PRICELESS SA has also published two innovative manuscripts detailing SA- specific integration of ethics principles from the NHI white paper, into a model framework for the process of priority setting, based on SA’s shared values. Read up more on this work from page 8 here.

Poster presentation at WITS School of Public Health Research Day 2019

Poster about the use of case studies in developing an ethical Framework for use in a Health Technology Assessment Body.