Health Above Profits – We Need a New Gambling Act

May CI van Schalkwyk is Public Health Specialty Registrar and is writing in her capacity as an Honorary Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on the analysis of health policy and the commercial determinants of health.

Rebecca Cassidy is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Vicious Games: capitalism and gambling (2020) and co-author of Fair Game: producing gambling research (2014).

Jenny Blythe is a General Practitioner based in London, UK, and is writing in her capacity as an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Niko Ovenden is an independent scholar and co-author of ‘Frequency, duration and medium of advertisements for gambling and other risky products in commercial and public service broadcasts of English Premier League football.’ (2017) https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/f6bu8