Give And Take

My guest is Jonathan H. Marks. His new book is The Perils of Partnership: Industry Influence, Institutional Integrity, and Public Health (https://www.amazon.com/Perils-Partnership-Influence-Institutional-Integrity/dp/0190907088/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=). Countless public health agencies are trying to solve our most intractable public health problems -- among them, the obesity and opioid epidemics -- by partnering with corporations responsible for creating or exacerbating those problems. We are told industry must be part of the solution. But is it time to challenge the partnership paradigm and the popular narratives that sustain it? In The Perils of Partnership, (https://www.amazon.com/Perils-Partnership-Influence-Institutional-Integrity/dp/0190907088/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) Jonathan H. Marks argues that public-private partnerships and multi-stakeholder initiatives create "webs of influence" that undermine the integrity of public health agencies; distort public health