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Overview

Chris Holden is a researcher affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their primary fields of study encompass Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Information Systems, and Applied Psychology.

Their research topics cover diverse areas such as Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies, Mobile Learning in Education, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, and Neurological Complications and Syndromes.

Among recent scholarly contributions, Chris Holden has coauthored the following papers:

  • Chronic opioid use can be reduced or discontinued after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for sickle cell disease, 2020, British Journal of Haematology
  • Deficits in consummatory reward relate to severity of cocaine use, 2023, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Acceptability and feasibility of fecal microBIOME and serum metabolite sample collection in people with end-stage kidney disease and pain being treated with HemoDialysis: A pilot study (BIOME-HDp), 2022, Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
  • Domains of Reward Functioning in Cocaine Use Disorder, 2023, Biological Psychiatry
  • Cannabis Use in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis (HD) with Chronic Pain: A Secondary Analysis of the HOPE Trial, 2024, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Frequent coauthors in their research include Margaret C. Wardle, Krista Miloslavich, Scott D. Lane, Joy M. Schmitz, and Aneet Ahluwalia.

Chris Holden's work has been published in various journals, reflecting a breadth of research interests. Notable publication venues are:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • British Journal of Haematology
  • Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

In addition to journal articles, Holden has contributed to academic books. One example is a publication with Carnegie Mellon University titled Mobile Media Learning: Innovation and Inspiration, released in 2024.

Best Publications

  • The Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility: Techniques of Neutralization, Stakeholder Management and Political CSR.

    Gary Fooks;Anna B. Gilmore;Jeff Collin;Chris Holden

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Policy Elites: An Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents

    Gary J. Fooks;Anna B. Gilmore;Anna B. Gilmore;Katherine E. Smith;Jeff Collin

  • The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate

    Michael Jakob;Jan Christoph Steckel;Frank Jotzo;Benjamin K. Sovacool

  • Industry use of evidence to influence alcohol policy: a case study of submissions to the 2008 Scottish government consultation.

    Jim McCambridge;Ben Hawkins;Chris Holden;Chris Holden

  • Framing the alcohol policy debate: industry actors and the regulation of the UK beverage alcohol market

    Benjamin Hawkins;Chris Holden

  • The Business-Social Policy Nexus: Corporate Power and Corporate Inputs into Social Policy

    Kevin Farnsworth;Chris Holden

  • Vested interests in addiction research and policy. The challenge corporate lobbying poses to reducing society's alcohol problems: insights from UK evidence on minimum unit pricing.

    Jim McCambridge;Benjamin Hawkins;Chris Holden

  • Alcohol industry influence on UK alcohol policy: a new research agenda for public health

    Benjamin Hawkins;Chris Holden;Jim McCambridge

  • Reassessing policy paradigms: A comparison of the global tobacco and alcohol industries

    Benjamin Hawkins;Chris Holden;Jappe Eckhardt;Kelley Lee

  • 'Water dripping on stone'? Industry lobbying and UK alcohol policy

    Ben Hawkins;Chris Holden

  • Decommodification and the Workfare State

    Chris Holden

  • ‘Whisky gloss’: The alcohol industry, devolution and policy communities in Scotland:

    Chris Holden;Benjamin Hawkins

  • Corporate Power and Social Policy: The Political Economy of the Transnational Tobacco Companies

    Chris Holden;Kelley Lee

  • Cleavages and co-operation in the UK alcohol industry: a qualitative study.

    Chris Holden;Benjamin Hawkins;Jim McCambridge

  • Controlling corporate influence in health policy making? An assessment of the implementation of article 5.3 of the World Health Organization framework convention on tobacco control

    Gary Jonas Fooks;Julia Smith;Kelley Lee;Chris Holden

  • A Corporate Veto on Health Policy? Global Constitutionalism and Investor–State Dispute Settlement

    Benjamin Hawkins;Chris Holden

  • A Multi-Level, Multi-Jurisdictional Strategy : Transnational Tobacco Companies’ Attempts to Obstruct Tobacco Packaging Restrictions

    Ben Hawkins;Christopher Holden;Sophia Constance MacKinder

  • Exporting public–private partnerships in healthcare: export strategy and policy transfer

    Chris Holden

  • Tobacco control and the World Trade Organization: mapping member states’ positions after the framework convention on tobacco control

    Jappe Eckhardt;Chris Holden;Cynthia D Callard

  • We Have Choices: Globalisation and welfare user movements

    Peter Beresford;Chris Holden

  • Globalization, social exclusion and Labour's new work ethic:

    Chris Holden

  • Analysis and debate in social policy

    Nicholas Ellison;Linda Bauld;Martin A. Powell;Karen Clarke

Frequent Co-Authors

Kelley Lee
Kelley Lee Simon Fraser University
Benjamin Hawkins
Benjamin Hawkins University of Cambridge
Anna B Gilmore
Anna B Gilmore University of Bath
Jim McCambridge
Jim McCambridge University of York
Ottmar Edenhofer
Ottmar Edenhofer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ian Greener
Ian Greener University of Strathclyde
Linda Bauld
Linda Bauld University of Edinburgh
Peter Beresford
Peter Beresford National Institute for Health Research
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex
Andreas Löschel
Andreas Löschel Ruhr University Bochum

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