DrBenjamin Wood

Research Fellow

Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation

  • Research Fellow
    Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The political economy of food systems; the corporate and financial drivers of ill-health and inequity; the commercial determinants of health; democratising finance.

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Commercial and Economic Determinants of Health July 2024
    1 Jul 2025 - 30 Jun 2030
    People funded by this grant:
    VicHealth - CEDoH - $4,400,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Supporting policymakers in South-East Asia to counter narratives and arguments used to undermine the implementation of ‘best practice’ health and nutrition policies
    World Health Organization16 Jun 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wood B,
    • Reeve E,
    • Sievert K,
    • Sacks G
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Counter narratives to support health in South-East Asia
    1 May 2024 - 30 Nov 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    World Health Organisation - WHO - 2024/1470875-0 - $42,075.00
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Landscape analysis of influential investors in the Australian food industry
    Institute for Health Transformation1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wood B,
    • Robinson E
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Competition law and public health
    Institute for Health Transformation1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Child Survival Investors Strategy
    Save the Children US, Norway and UK30 Jun 2022 - 31 Jul 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wood B,
    • Sacks G,
    • Robinson E,
    • Baker P,
    • McCoy D
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Examining the economic and distributional impact of the global commercial milk formula industry
    World Health Organization20 Sep 2021 - 17 Sep 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wood B,
    • O'Sullivan D
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Examining how Coca-Cola shaped the International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health, 2012-2014
    U.S. Right to Know1 Jun 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wood B,
    • Sacks G,
    • Ruskin G