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On Saturday 19th and Saturday 26th of February, 2022, the Healthy Caribbean Coalition and it’s partners hosted a workshop entitled Let’s Talk About Marketing to Children & What We Can Do About It.
View/download the flyer here.
- To build capacity of youth health advocates to identify and challenge industry tactics to market health-harming products to children and youth
- To build awareness and understanding of the alcohol, tobacco and unhealthy food and beverage industry playbook to gain child and youth customers
- To build awareness and understanding of the harm of these tactics
- To explore the importance of the watchdog role as health advocates and strategies that can be used to challenge these tactics
- To develop a Call to Action from youth advocates across the globe
- Improved understanding of alcohol, tobacco and unhealthy food and beverage industry tactics to gain child and youth customers
- Increased capacity of youth advocates to identify marketing tactics
- Increased understanding of strategies that can be used to challenge these health harming industry tactics
Welcome, Goal, Objectives & Introduction of Moderator – Danielle Walwyn, Advocacy Officer, Healthy Caribbean Coalition
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Danielle Walwyn
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Moderator
Kimberley Benjamin
Lawyer & Healthy Caribbean Youth Member
A Future For our World’s Children? – The Power of Youth Advocacy
Ms. Laura Marcela Aguirre-Martínez, Youth Advisory Board Member, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
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Ms. Laura Marcela Aguirre-Martínez
The CRC and How does marketing to children infringe on Children’s Right to Health?
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Nicole D Foster (nee Clarke)
Deputy Dean & Head, Law & Health Research Unit, Faculty of Law, UWI Cave Hill Campus, Attorney-at-Law & Policy Advisor, Healthy Caribbean Coalition
Q&A Segment
History of Industry Interference and Marketing to Children – The Tobacco Industry
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Dr. Bonnie Balpern-Flesher
Professor of Pediatrics. Director, Reach Lab and Founder and Executive Director, Tobacco Prevention Toolkit, Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit, and Vaping Information, Solutions, and Interventions Toolkit.
Moderated Discussion – Examples from around the world – Industry interference and marketing tobacco products to children
Moderator: Aditya Indla, Anti-Vaping Advocate & Gym Americas Core Team Member
- Caribbean – Barbara McGaw, Project Manager, Heart Foundation of Jamaica
- Brazil/ South America – Mariana Pinho, Coordinator of the Tobacco Control Project, ACT Health Promotion
- North America – Gustavo Torrez, Director of Youth Advocacy, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
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Aditya Indla
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Barbara McGaw
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Mariana Pinho
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Gustavo Torrez
History of Industry Interference and Marketing to Children – The Alcohol Industry
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Maik Dünnbier
Director of Strategy and Advocacy, Movendi
Moderated Discussion – Examples from around the world – Industry interference and marketing alcohol products to children – Moderator – Abhinav Vallur, Youth Advisory Board, Stanford REACH Lab
- Caribbean – Prof Rohan Maharaj, Senior Lecturer (University of the West Indies) and Technical Advisor (Healthy Caribbean Coalition)
- Latin America – Viviana Monge, Costa Rica Saludable
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Abhinav Vallur
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Prof Rohan Maharaj
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Viviana Monge
12.25 – 12.45 p.m. | Lightning Round Discussion: The Youth Have been fighting back! – Examples of strategies to challenge the Tobacco and Alcohol Industry – Moderator: Neha Jain, Research Fellow with the Public Health Foundation of India & GYM 2021 Coordinating Committee
- Through Research: HRIDAY – Changes in tobacco depictions after implementation of tobacco-free film and TV rules in Bollywood films in India and Surrogate Advertising Campaigns? – Ms. Tina Rawal, Director, Youth Engagement and Partnerships, at HRIDAY and Research Scientist at Health Promotion Division, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
- Through Awareness: Stanford REACH Youth Advisory Board – Dr. Marcia Monica Zorrilla, Director of Positive Youth Development and Public Health Specialist Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, REACH Lab
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Neha Jain
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Ms. Tina Rawal
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Dr. Marcia Monica Zorrilla
12.55 – 1.00 p.m | Closing Remarks – Kimberley Benjamin, Lawyer & Healthy Caribbean Youth Member and Ms. Radhika Shrivastav, Senior Director, HRIDAY and Danielle Walwyn, HCC Advocacy Officer.
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Kimberley Benjamin
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Ms. Radhika Shrivastav
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Danielle Walwyn
Welcome and Overview of Marketing to Children, Focus on Big Food and Introduction of the Moderator – Neha Jain, Research Fellow with the Public Health Foundation of India & GYM 2021 Coordinating Committee.
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Neha Jain
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Moderator
Pierre Cooke Jr.
Technical Advisor, Healthy Caribbean Coalition
The Next Big Child Rights Fight Against the Food & Beverage Industry: The marketing of junk food to children – D’Arcy Williams, Programme Officer, UNICEF
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D’Arcy Williams
Moderated Discussion – Examples of industry interference and marketing to children from around the world:
Moderator: Shereika Mills, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network
- Danielle Walwyn, Advocacy Officer, Healthy Caribbean Coalition
- Dr. Camila Maranha, Professor, Faculty of Nutrition in the Fluminense Federal University in Brazil
- Claudia Selin Batz, Policy & Projects Coordinator, World Obesity Federation
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Shereika Mills
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Danielle Walwyn
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Dr. Camila Maranha
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Claudia Selin Batz
Q&A Segment
Lightning Round Discussion: The Youth Have been fighting back!
Examples of strategies to challenge the Unhealthy Food and Beverage Industry – Moderator: Ana Larrañaga Flota, MA candidate, University of Sussex
- Fighting for Policy Change – Tasha Mhakayakora, Bite Back 2030
- Barbados childhood obesity prevention youth advocates – Jakaila Hewitt, Medical Student and Youth Advocate
- Andrew Lesa, NCD Child
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Ana Larrañaga Flota
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Tasha Mhakayakora
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Jakaila Hewitt
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Andrew Lesa
Q&A Segment
Group Report Back
Closing Comments and Next Steps – Tina Rawal, Neha Jain, Laura Cury, Aditya Inda, Peirre Cooke Jr. and Danielle Walwyn