Eric Crosbie, Ph.D., M.A.

Summary

Eric Crosbie is a political scientist who examines commercial determinants of health and public health policy. His research focuses on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and examines how commercial industries (tobacco, food and beverage, alcohol, pharmaceutical and fossil fuel) are a key driver of the NCD epidemic and how they influence public health regulations.

Crosbie's research is local in analyzing smoke-free environments and sugar-sweetened beverage taxation regulations in the U.S. as well as global in examining tobacco and nutrition packaging and labeling policies and the impact of trade on health. Crosbie has both local and international experience collaborating with health organizations and health advocates to educate and disseminate academic research findings to policymakers, including publishing research in Spanish to reach wider audiences. Crosbie also works with undergraduate and graduate students to publish and present research. Overall his research is multi-disciplinary combining elements of public health, political science, international relations, economics, law and business to examine public health policy both locally and globally.

Research and teaching interests

Commercial determinants of health, health policy, global health, tobacco control, nutrition policy, sugar-sweetened beverages, trade and health, international relations, transnational corporations, political institutions and Latin America.

Courses taught

• PBH 341: Policy Issues in Health and Society
• PBH 420: Commercial Determinants of Health
• CHS 755: Health Policy

Publications

2024

• Lacy-Nichols J, Baradar H, Crosbie E, Cullerton K. Lobbying in the sunlight: a scoping review of frameworks to measure the accessibility of lobbying disclosures. Int J Health Policy Manag. Article in press.
• Crosbie E, Perez S, Rocha A, Ochoa V, Severini G, Gutkowski P, Sosa P, Sebrié E. The perfect storm: Applying multiple streams framework to understand the adoption of a WHO FCTC-based policy in Mexico. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024;21(7):917.***
• Severini L, de Figuerierdo B, Severini G, Tran B, Sebrié E, Crosbie E. Shaping the future: Proposed bills to regulate new and emerging tobacco and nicotine products in Latin America and the Caribbean amidst public health concerns and industry interests. Nicotine Tob Res. Jul 5:ntae161doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntae161. Online ahead of print.***
• Crosbie E, Perez S, Hartman J, Sheretz L, Klepeis N. Measuring air quality in smoking and nonsmoking areas of Nevada casinos (Reno/Sparks): Potential exposure of minors to secondhand smoke. Environmental Analysis Health & Toxicology. 2024;39(2):e2024014.
• Crosbie E, Edison K, Maclean V, Moges D, Fuss C, Muggli M, Bityeki B, Sebrié E. Adopting a WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control-Based Tobacco Control Law in Ethiopia: Sustained Transnational Health Advocacy and Multi-Sectoral Institutionalized Support. Int J
• Carriedo A, Ojeda E, Crosbie E, Mialon M. Public-Private Partnerships in Mexico: Implications of Engaging with the Food and Beverage Industry for Public Health Nutrition. Int J Health Policy Manag2024;13(8008).***
• Sebrié E, Donley K, Fuss C, Wasson K, Camara B, Muggli M, Crosbie E. Tobacco packaging and labeling policies in the WHO African Region: Progress after 15 years of adoption of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s Article 11 guidelines. Tob Control.
• Crosbie E, Tran B, de Figuerierdo B, Severini L, Severini G, Sebrié E. Tobacco industry strategies to influence the regulation of new and emerging tobacco and nicotine products in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rev PanamSalud Publica. Jun 7:48:e43. doi: 10.26633/

2023

• Crosbie E, Otero Alvarez M, Cao M, Vejar Renteria L, Rodriguez E, Larraña A, Carriedo A. Implementation of front-of-pack nutrition labeling in Mexico: Important lessons for low and middle-income countries. Public Health Nutr. 2023;26(1): 2149-2161.***
• Meija Toro C, Perez EM, Carriedo A, Crosbie E. Barriers to overcoming child hunger and malnutrition: Applying a human rights approach to improve policy and action. Int J Public Health. 2023:68:1605969.***
• Dobbs P, Chadwick G, Crosbie E, Schisler E, Merrill, R, Henriksen, L. Preemption in state tobacco minimum legal sales age laws in the US, 2022. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2023: May 31;20(11): 6016. Doi: 10.3390/ijerph20116016.
• Crosbie E, Erinoso F, Machin N, Sebrié E. Progress, gaps and industry opposition to tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship bans in the World Health Organization African Region. Nicotine Tob Res. 2023 Apr 12;ntad060. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntad060. Online ahead of
• Crosbie E, Gomes F, Olvera J, Rincón-Gallardo S, Hoeper S, Carriedo A. A policy study on front-of-pack nutrition labeling in the Americas: Emerging developments and outcomes. Lancet Reg Health Am 2022. 2022 Dec 1;18:100400. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100400

2022

• Egbe C, Ngobese SP, Barca H, Crosbie E. “Are they trying to control us people?”: New media coverage of COVID-19 lockdown tobacco sales ban in South Africa. PLoS One. 2022; 17(12): e0278888.
• Crosbie E, Carriedo A. Applying a commercial determinants of health lens to understand, expose and counter industry co-option, appeasement and partnership. Int J Health Policy Manag 2022. x(x), 1-4.
• Borges L, Zeferino H, Crosbie E. More pain, more gain! The delivery of COVID-19 vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry’s role in widening the access gap. Int J Health Policy Manag 2021. Accepted.
• Carriedo A, Pinsky I, Crosbie E, Ruskin G, Mialon M. The corporate capture of the nutrition profession in the United States: The case of the Academy of Nutrition Dietetics. Public Health Nutr 2021. Accepted.
• Crosbie E, Florence D, Nanthaseang M, et al. Reducing Sugar Consumption: A Case Study of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation in Ireland. Health Policy, 2022;126(8):738-743.
• Crosbie E, Borges L, Eckford R, Sebrié E, Severini G, BialousS. Overcoming tobacco industry opposition to standardized packaging in the Americas: Overcoming industry to stop lack of progress. Rev PanamSalud Publica 2022;46:e145.***. Accepted.
• Hoeper S, Crosbie E, Holmes L, Hoang C, Ling PM. “The perfect formula:” Evaluating Health Claims, Products and Pricing on Cannabis Dispensary Websites in Two Recently Legalized States. Substance Use and Misuse 2022;57(8):1207-1214.
• Crosbie E, Gutkowski P, Severini G, Pizarro M, Perez S, de Figuerierdo B, Rodriguez D, Sebrié E. Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in the Americas: Lessons from Uruguay and Argentina. Rev Panam Salud Publica 2022. Accepted.
• Crosbie E, Erinoso O, Perez S, Severini G, Sebrié E. Moving in the right direction: Tobacco packaging and labeling in the Americas. Rev Panam Salud Publica 2022. Accepted.
• Lee K, Crosbie E, Freudenburg N. Measuring the Commercial Determinants of Health and Disease: A Proposed Framework. Int J Health Serv. Jan 2022;52(1):115-128.
• Lacy-Nichols J, Marten R, Crosbie E, Moodie R. The public health playbook: ideas for countering the corporate playbook. Lancet Glob Health. May 2022.***
• Eckford R, Severini G, Sebrié E, Muggli M, Beem A, Rosen D, Crosbie E. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of “reduced exposure” claims for IQOS: Implications for regulation in Latin America. Rev Panam Salud Publica 2022. Accepted.
• Mialon M, Serodio P, Crosbie E, Teicholz N, Naik A, Carriedo A. Conflicts of interest for members of the U.S. 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Public Health Nutr 2022;1-28.
• Crosbie E, Perez S, Sebrié E. Tobacco Control in Bolivia: Civil Society Efforts in Securing a Comprehensive Law. Nicotine Tob Res 2022.***
• Ling PM, Crosbie E, Holmes L, Hoang C, Hoeper S. Cannabis in the time of COVID-19: A content analysis of online dispensary practices. Sub Abuse 2022;43(1):1116-1119.

2021

• Crosbie E, Severini G, Tran B, Beem A, Sebrié E. New Tobacco and Nicotine Products in Latin America and the Caribbean: Assessing the Market and Regulatory Environment. Tob Control 2021.***
• Crosbie E, Hartman J, Tran B, Bialous S. Promoting healthier options? Inside the branding of light cigarettes and targeting youth in Brazil. Glob Public Health. Dec 1 2021:1-11.***
• Freudenberg N, Crosbie E, Lima, A. Defining Priorities for Action and Research on the Commercial Determinants of Health: A Conceptual Review. Am J Public Health. Dec 2021;111(12):2202-2211.
• Pedroza A, Crosbie E, Mialon M, Carriedo A, Schmidt L. Food and beverage industry interference in science and policy: efforts to block soda tax implementation in Mexico and prevent international diffusion. BMJ Glob Health. Aug 2021;6(8).
• Crosbie E, Defrank V, Egbe CO, Ayo-Yusuf O, Bialous S. Tobacco supply and demand strategies used in African countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Jul 1 2021;99(7):539-540.
• Mialon M, Ho M, Carriedo A, Ruskin G, Crosbie E. Beyond nutrition and physical activity: Food industry shaping of the very principles of scientific integrity. Global Health. Apr 20 2021;17(1):37.
• Duran, A, Smith Taillie, L, Catis, C, Mialon, M, Jensen, M, Harris, J, Corvalan, C, Crosbie, E. Food environment solutions for childhood obesity in Latin American and among Latinos living in the United States. Obesity Reviews. Jun 2021;22 Suppl 3:e13237.***
• Wright KE, Devereux P, Crosbie E, Pearson J, Granner M, Ferguson J, Lucero J. The influence of cultural food security on cultural identity and well-being: A qualitative comparison between second-generation American and international students in the United States. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Feb 25 2021:1-27.
• Crosbie E, Pomeranz J, Wright KE, Hoeper S, Schmidt L. State preemption: An emerging threat to local sugar-sweetened beverage taxation. Am J Public Health 2020.
• Wright KE, Devereux P, Crosbie E, Pearson J, Granner M, Ferguson J, Lucero J. The impact that cultural food security has on identity and well-being in second-generation American college students. Food Security 2020.

2020

• Yang J, Kotzias V, Crosbie E, Mackey TK. COVID-19 and a Window of Opportunity Guiding Principles for a Health-Promoting Trade Agenda. Int J Health Policy Manag 2020.
• Crosbie E, Mialon, M, Kearns, C, Schmidt, L. Industry Interference in Nutrition Science Reaches into Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Transnational Soda Corporations in Colombia. BMJ.***
• Crosbie E, Carriedo A, Schmidt L. Hollow Threats: Transnational Food and Beverage Companies’ Use of International Agreements to Fight Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labeling in Mexico and Beyond. Int J Health Policy Manag 2020.^***
• Crosbie E, Snider KM, McMillen R, et al. Expanding Smoke-Free Communities: Attitudes and Beliefs Surrounding Smoke-Free Casinos and Bars in Washoe County, Nevada. J Hospl Manag Health Policy 2020.
• Crosbie E, Schmidt L. Commentary on Hilton Et Al. (2020). Expanding Social Discourse Analysis to Gain Traction on the Broad Commercial Determinants of Health. Addiction 2020.
• Mialon, M, Charry, DAG, Cediel, G, Crosbie, E, Scagliusia, FB, Tamayo, EMP. “I had never seen so many lobbyists”: food industry influence on the development of a new front-of-pack nutrition labelling in Colombia". Public Health Nutr.^***
• Mialon, M, Crosbie, E, Sacks, Gary. Mapping of food industry strategies to influence public health policy, research and practice in South Africa. Int J Public Health.
• Schmidt L, Mialon M, Kearns C, Crosbie, E. Transnational corporations, obesity and planetary health: Coca-Cola in Colombia. Lancet Planetary Health 2020.^***
• Bhatta DN, Crosbie E, Bialous SA, et al. Defending Comprehensive Tobacco Control Policy Implementation in Nepal from Tobacco Industry Interference. (2011-2018). Nicotine Tob Res 2020.
• Crosbie E, Schmidt, L. Preemption in tobacco control: A framework for other areas of public health. Am J Public Health 2020.

2019

• Crosbie E. Response to the letter to the editor regarding: Removing the last billboard for the tobacco industry: Tobacco standardized packaging in Ireland. Health Policy 2019.
• Crosbie E. Removing the last billboard for the tobacco industry: Tobacco standardized packaging in Ireland. Health Policy. 2019;123:932-935.
• Lee, K, Crosbie. Understanding Structure and Agency as Commercial Determinants; Comment on "How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for Ncd Prevention". Int J Health Policy Manag 2019.
• Bhatta DA, Bialous, S, Crosbie E, Glantz SA. Exceeding FCTC obligations: Nepal overcoming tobacco industry interference to enact a comprehensive tobacco control policy. Nicotine Tob Res 2019.
• Wright KE, Lucero J, Crosbie E. "It's nice to have a little bit of home, even if it's just on your plate"-perceived barriers for Latinos accessing food pantries. J Hunger Environ Nutr. DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2019.1664963
• Bhatta DA, Crosbie E, Bialous S, Glantz SA. Tobacco control in Nepal during a time of government turmoil (1960-2006). Tob Control 2019.
• Crosbie E, Hatefi A, Schmidt L. Emerging threats of global preemption to nutrition labelling. Health Policy Plan 2019.
• Labonté R, Crosbie E, McNamara C, Gleeson D. USMCA (NAFTA 2.0): Tightening the constraints on the right to regulate for public health. Global Health 2019;15:35.
• Crosbie E, Schillinger D, Schmidt LA. State Preemption to Prevent Local Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages. JAMA Intern Med 2019;179:291-292.
• Crosbie E, Bialous S, Glantz, SA. Memoranda of Understanding as a tobacco industry strategy to interfere with Illicit Trade on tobacco products. Tob Control 2019.
• Crosbie E, Eckford R, Bialous S. Containing diffusion: the tobacco industry's multipronged trade strategy to block tobacco standardized packaging. Tob Control 2019;28:195-205.

2018

• Crosbie E, Thomson G.Regulatory chills: tobacco industry legal threats and the politics of tobacco standardized packaging in New Zealand. N Z Med J. 2018 Apr 13;131(1473):25-41.
• Crosbie E, Thomson G, Freeman B, Bialous S. Advancing progressive health policy to reduce NCDs amidst international commercial opposition: Tobacco standardized packaging in Australia. Glob Public Health. 2018 Feb 27:1-14.
• Crosbie E, Sosa P, Glantz SA. Defending strong tobacco packaging and labeling regulations in Uruguay: transnational tobacco control network vs. Philip Morris International. Tob Control. 2018 Mar;27(2):185-194.^***
• Uang R, Crosbie E, Glantz SA. Tobacco control implementation in a middle-income country: transnational tobacco control network overcoming tobacco industry opposition in Colombia. Glob Public Health 2018;13:1050-1064.^***
  

2017

• Crosbie E, Sosa P, Glantz SA. The importance of continued engagement during the implementation phase of tobacco control policies in a middle-income country: The case of Costa Rica. Tob Control. Jan 2017;26(1):60-68.^***
• Uang R, Crosbie E, Glantz, SA. Smokefree implementation in Colombia: monitoring, outside funding and business support. Salud Publica Mex. 2017;58(2):126-132.^*** 2016
• Crosbie E. Advancing corporate rights at the expense of public health: A brief examination of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. J of Int Pol Solutions. 2016;14(1):85-91.
• Crosbie E, Sosa P, Glantz SA. Costa Rica's successful implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Overcoming decades of industry dominance. Salud Publica Mex. 2016;58(1).^***

2014

• Crosbie E. Crosbie Response to TPP. Am J Public Health. Dec 2014;104(12):e5.
• Crosbie E, Gonzalez M, Glantz SA. Health preemption behind closed doors: Trade agreements and fast track authority. Am J Public Health. 2014; e1-e7.
• Crosbie E, Glantz SA. Tobacco industry argues domestic trademark laws and international treaties preclude cigarette health warning labels, despite consistent legal advice that the argument is invalid. Tob Control. May 2014;23(3):e7.
• Hiilamo H, Crosbie E, Glantz, SA. The evolution of health warning labels on cigarette packs: the role of precedents and tobacco industry strategies to block diffusion. Tob Control. Jan 2014;23(1):e2.

2012

• Crosbie E, Sebrié E.M, Glantz SA. Tobacco industry success in Costa Rica: the importance of FCTC article 5.3. Salud Publica Mex. 2012;54(1):28-38.^*** 2011
• Crosbie E, Sebrié E.M, Glantz SA. Strong advocacy led to successful implementation of smokefree Mexico City. Tob Control. 2011 Jan;20(1):64-72.^***

^***Publications translated and available in Spanish and and Portuguese

Education

• Ph.D., Politics/Public Health - University of California, Santa Cruz 2016
• MA, International Relations - San Francisco State University 2010
• BA, History - San Francisco State University 2007