Commercial Determinants of Health: an agenda for global health geography

The global rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) presents an international public health policy challenge. Critical agents in this global trend are the activities and growth strategies of large transnational companies (TNCs) producing, selling and marketing unhealthy commodities including tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food. However, little geographical scholarship has considered the corporate activities of TNCs and the implications for global health. We utilise the ‘Commercial Determinants of Health’ framework to develop a cross-disciplinary agenda for geographical scholarship to deepen our understanding of how TNCs are drivers of global health geographies and implicated in the rise of NCDs and health inequalities.