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Sharon Friel is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of health professions and business, management, and accounting, contributing extensively to fields such as global public health policies, climate change and health impacts, and health disparities and outcomes.

Their work spans several subfields, including general health professions, organizational behavior and human resource management, health, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and public health, environmental and occupational health. This multidisciplinary approach supports a broad understanding of factors influencing health systems and policies worldwide.

Friel has published regularly in notable academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Lancet
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • The Medical Journal of Australia
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Globalization and Health

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Frequent collaborators in their research encompass Fran Baum, Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend, Toby Freeman, and Jeff Collin, reflecting a network of interdisciplinary partnerships.

Selected recent papers by Friel demonstrate a focus on the commercial determinants of health and the broader impacts of global systems on nutrition and sustainability. Notable papers include:

  • "Commercial determinants of health: future directions," 2023, The Lancet
  • "The nexus between international trade, food systems, malnutrition and climate change," 2020, Nature Food

Other highly cited works related to themes connected with Friel's expertise include:

  • "Ultra-processed foods and the nutrition transition: Global, regional and national trends, food systems transformations and political economy drivers," 2020, Obesity Reviews
  • "Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health," 2023, The Lancet
  • "The COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons on building more equal and sustainable societies," 2020, The Economic and Labour Relations Review

Best Publications

  • Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health

    Michael Marmot;Sharon Friel;Ruth Bell;Tanja Aj Houweling

  • Managing the health effects of climate change

    Anthony Costello;Mustafa Abbas;Adriana Allen;Sarah Ball

  • The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

    Boyd A Swinburn;Boyd A Swinburn;Vivica I Kraak;Steven Allender;Vincent J Atkins

  • Smart food policies for obesity prevention

    Corinna Hawkes;Trenton G Smith;Jo Jewell;Jane Wardle

  • Ultra-processed foods and the nutrition transition: Global, regional and national trends, food systems transformations and political economy drivers.

    Phillip Baker;Priscila Machado;Thiago Santos;Katherine Sievert

  • Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century

    Yvonne Rydin;Ana Bleahu;Michael Davies;Julio D. Dávila

  • INFORMAS (International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support): overview and key principles

    Boyd Swinburn;Boyd Swinburn;Gary Sacks;Stefanie Vandevijvere;Shiriki Kumanyika

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: food and agriculture

    Sharon Friel;Alan D Dangour;Tara Garnett;Karen Lock

  • Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health

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  • Global environmental change and health: impacts, inequalities, and the health sector

    A J McMichael;Sharon Friel;A Nyong;C Corvalan

  • Shrinking the food-print: A qualitative study into consumer perceptions, experiences and attitudes towards healthy and environmentally friendly food behaviours

    Annet Hoek;David Pearson;Stephen James;Mark Lawrence

  • Food systems transformations, ultra-processed food markets and the nutrition transition in Asia

    Phillip Baker;Sharon Friel

  • Processed foods and the nutrition transition: evidence from Asia

    Phillip Baker;Sharon Friel

  • Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments: a proposed Government Healthy Food Environment Policy Index.

    Boyd Swinburn;Stefanie Vandevijvere;Vivica Kraak;Gary Sacks

  • Electronic nose for monitoring the flavour of beers

    Timothy C. Pearce;Julian W. Gardner;Sharon Friel;Philip N. Bartlett

  • The COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons on building more equal and sustainable societies

    Kristin van Barneveld;Michael Quinlan;Peter Kriesler;Anne Junor

  • The health equity dimensions of urban food systems

    Jane Dixon;AM Omwega;Sharon Friel;Catherine M Burns

  • Urban Environmental Health Hazards and Health Equity

    Tord Kjellstrom;Sharon Friel;Jane Dixon;Carlos Corvalan

  • Global health equity and climate stabilisation: a common agenda

    Sharon Friel;Sharon Friel;Michael Marmot;Anthony J McMichael;Tord Kjellstrom

  • Healthy and environmentally sustainable food choices: Consumer responses to point-of-purchase actions

    Annet Hoek;David Pearson;sarah james;Mark Lawrence

  • Monitoring the price and affordability of foods and diets globally

    Andy Lee;Cliona Ni Mhurchu;Gary Sacks;Boyd Swinburn;Boyd Swinburn

  • Unequal weight: equity oriented policy responses to the global obesity epidemic

    Sharon Friel;Mickey Chopra;David Satcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Fran Baum
Fran Baum University of Adelaide
Wendy Snowdon
Wendy Snowdon Deakin University
Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Corinna Hawkes
Corinna Hawkes City, University of London
Anne Marie Thow
Anne Marie Thow University of Sydney
Ronald Labonté
Ronald Labonté University of Ottawa
Gary Sacks
Gary Sacks Deakin University
Stefanie Vandevijvere
Stefanie Vandevijvere University of Auckland
Bridget Kelly
Bridget Kelly University of Wollongong

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