Eric Crosbie, Ph.D., MPH

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

Doctoral student advisees

• Margarita Alvarez
• Luciana Borges
• Francis Fagbule
• Sara Perez

Publications

2024

• Carriedo, A., Ojeda, E., Crosbie, E. & Mialon, M. (2024). Public-private partnerships in Mexico: Implications of engaging with the food and beverage industry for public health nutrition. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 13, Article 8008.***
• Lacy-Nichols, J., Baradar., H., Crosbie, E. & Cullerton K. (2024). Lobbying in the sunlight: a scoping review of frameworks to measure the accessibility of lobbying disclosures. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Advance online publication.
• Crosbie, E., Perez, S., Rocha, A., Ochoa, V., Severini, G., Gutkowski, P., Sosa, P. & Sebrié, E. (2024). The perfect storm: Applying multiple streams framework to understand the adoption of a WHO FCTC-based policy in Mexico. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(7), 917.***
• Severini, L., de Figuerierdo, B., Severini, G., Tran, B., Sebrié, E. & Crosbie, E.(2024). 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 & Tobacco Research. Advance online publication.***
• Crosbie, E., Perez, S., Hartman, J., Sheretz, L. & Klepeis, N. (2024). Measuring air quality in smoking and nonsmoking areas of Nevada casinos (Reno/Sparks): Potential exposure of minors to secondhand smoke. Environmental Analysis Health & Toxicology 39(2), e2024014.
• Crosbie, E., Edison, K., Maclean, V., Moges, D., Fuss, C., Muggli, M., Bityeki, B. & Sebrié, E. (2024) Adopting a WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control-Based tobacco control law in Ethiopia: Sustained transnational health advocacy and multi-sectoral institutionalized support. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Advance online publication.
• Sebrié, E., Donley, K., Fuss, C., Wasson, K., Camara, B., Muggli, M. & Crosbie, E. (2024). 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. Tobacco Control. Advance online publication.
• Crosbie, E., Tran, B., de Figuerierdo, B., Severini, L., Severini, G. & Sebrié, E. (2024). Tobacco industry strategies to influence the regulation of new and emerging tobacco and nicotine products in Latin America and the Caribbean. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 48, e43.

2023

• Crosbie, E., Otero Alvarez, M., Cao, M., Vejar Renteria, L., Rodriguez, E., Larraña, A. & Carriedo, A. (2023). Implementation of front-of-pack nutrition labeling in Mexico: Important lessons for low and middle-income countries. Public Health Nutrition, 26(1), 2149-2161.***
• Meija Toro, C., Perez, E. M., Carriedo, A. & Crosbie, E.(2023). Barriers to overcoming child hunger and malnutrition: Applying a human rights approach to improve policy and action. International Journal of Public Health, 68, 1605969.***
• Dobbs, P., Chadwick, G., Crosbie, E., Schisler, E., Merrill, R. & Henriksen, L. (2023). Preemption in state tobacco minimum legal sales age laws in the US, 2022. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(11), 6016.
• Crosbie, E., Erinoso, F., Machin, N. & Sebrié, E. (2023). Progress, gaps and industry opposition to tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship bans in the World Health Organization African Region. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Advance online publication. 

2022

• Crosbie, E., Gomes, F., Olvera, J., Rincón-Gallardo, S., Hoeper, S. & Carriedo, A. (2022). A policy study on front-of-pack nutrition labeling in the Americas: Emerging developments and outcomes. Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 18, 100400.
• Egbe., C., Ngobese, S. P., Barca, H. & Crosbie, E.(2022). “Are they trying to control us people?”: New media coverage of COVID-19 lockdown tobacco sales ban in South Africa. PLoS One. 17(12), e0278888.
• Crosbie, E. & Carriedo, A. (2022). Applying a commercial determinants of health lens to understand, expose and counter industry co-option, appeasement and partnership. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(11), 2571-2574.
• Borges, L., Zeferino, H. & Crosbie, E. (2022). More pain, more gain! The delivery of COVID-19 vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry’s role in widening the access gap. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Advance online publication. 
• Carriedo, A., Pinsky, I., Crosbie, E., Ruskin, G. & Mialon, M. (2022). The corporate capture of the nutrition profession in the United States: The case of the Academy of Nutrition Dietetics. Public Health Nutrition. Advance online publication.
• Crosbie, E., Florence, D., Nanthaseang, M., et al. (2022). Reducing sugar consumption: A case study of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in Ireland. Health Policy, 126(8), 738-743.
• Crosbie, E., Borges, L., Eckford, R., Sebrié, E., Severini, G. & Bialous, S. (2022). Overcoming tobacco industry opposition to standardized packaging in the Americas: Overcoming industry to stop lack of progress.  Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública,  Advance online publication.***
• Hoeper, S., Crosbie, E., Holmes, L., Hoang, C. & Ling, P. M. (2022). “The perfect formula:” Evaluating health claims, products and pricing on cannabis dispensary websites in two recently legalized states. Substance Use & Misuse, 57(8), 1207-1214.
• Crosbie, E., Gutkowski, P., Severini, G., Pizarro, M., Perez, S., de Figuerierdo, B., Rodriguez, D. & Sebrié, E. (2022). Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in the Americas: Lessons from Uruguay and Argentina. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública. Advance online publication.
• Crosbie, E., Erinoso, O., Perez, S., Severini, G. & Sebrié, E. (2022). Moving in the right direction: Tobacco packaging and labeling in the Americas. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública. Advance online publication. 
• Lee, K., Crosbie, E. & Freudenburg, N. (2022). Measuring the commercial determinants of health and disease: A proposed framework. International Journal of Health Services, 52(1), 115-128.
• Lacy-Nichols, J., Marten, R., Crosbie, E. & Moodie, R. (2022). The public health playbook: Ideas for countering the corporate playbook. The Lancet Global Health. Advance online publication.***
• Eckford, R., Severini, G., Sebrié, E., Muggli, M., Beem, A., Rosen, D. & Crosbie, E. (2022). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of “reduced exposure” claims for IQOS: Implications for regulation in Latin America. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública. Advance online publication.
• Mialon, M., Serodio, P., Crosbie, E., Teicholz, N., Naik, A. & Carriedo, A. (2022). Conflicts of interest for members of the U.S. 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Public Health Nutrition, 1-28.
• Crosbie, E., Perez, S. & Sebrié, E. (2022). Tobacco Control in Bolivia: Civil Society Efforts in Securing a Comprehensive Law. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Advance online publication.***
• Ling, P. M., Crosbie, E., Holmes, L., Hoang, C. & Hoeper, S. (2022). Cannabis in the time of COVID-19: A content analysis of online dispensary practices. Substance Abuse, 43(1), 1116-1119.

2021

• Crosbie, E., Severini, G., Tran, B., Beem, A. & Sebrié, E. (2021). New tobacco and nicotine products in Latin America and the Caribbean: Assessing the market and regulatory environment. Tobacco Control. Advance online publication.***
• Crosbie, E., Hartman, J., Tran, B. & Bialous, S. (2021). Promoting healthier options? Inside the branding of light cigarettes and targeting youth in Brazil. Global Public Health, 1-11.***
• Freudenberg, N., Crosbie, E. & Lima, A. (2021). Defining priorities for action and research on the commercial determinants of health: A conceptual review. American Journal of Public Health, 111(12), 2202-2211.
• Pedroza, A., Crosbie, E., Mialon, M., Carriedo, A. & Schmidt, L. (2021). Food and beverage industry interference in science and policy: efforts to block soda tax implementation in Mexico and prevent international diffusion. BMJ Global Health, 6(8), e006543.
• Crosbie, E., Defrank, V., Egbe, C. O., Ayo-Yusuf, O. & Bialous, S. (2021). Tobacco supply and demand strategies used in African countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 99(7), 539-540.
• Mialon, M., Ho, M., Carriedo, A., Ruskin, G. & Crosbie, E. (2021). Beyond nutrition and physical activity: Food industry shaping of the very principles of scientific integrity. Global Health, 17(1), 37.
• Duran, A., Smith Taillie, L., Catis, C., Mialon, M., Jensen, M., Harris, J., Corvalan, C. & Crosbie, E. (2021). Food environment solutions for childhood obesity in Latin American and among Latinos living in the United States. Obesity Reviews, 22(Suppl 3), e13237.***
• Wright, K. E., Devereux, P., Crosbie, E., Pearson, J., Granner, M., Ferguson, J. & Lucero, J. (2021). 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, 1-27.
• Crosbie, E., Pomeranz, J., Wright, K. E., Hoeper, S. & Schmidt, L. (2021). State preemption: An emerging threat to local sugar-sweetened beverage taxation. American Journal of Public Health.
• Wright, K. E., Devereux, P., Crosbie, E., Pearson, J., Granner, M., Ferguson, J. & Lucero, J. (2021). The impact that cultural food security has on identity and well-being in second-generation American college students. Food Security.

2020

• Yang, J., Kotzias, V., Crosbie, E. & Mackey, T. K. (2020). COVID-19 and a window of opportunity guiding principles for a health-promoting trade agenda. International Journal of Health Policy and Management.
• Crosbie, E., Mialon, M., Kearns, C. & Schmidt, L. (2020). Industry interference in nutrition science reaches into low- and middle-income countries: Transnational soda corporations in Colombia. BMJ.***
• Crosbie, E., Carriedo, A. & Schmidt, L. (2020). Hollow threats: Transnational food and beverage companies’ use of international agreements to fight front-of-pack nutrition labeling in Mexico and beyond. International Journal of Health Policy and Management.^***
• Crosbie, E., Snider, K. M., McMillen, R., et al. (2020). Expanding smoke-free communities: Attitudes and beliefs surrounding smoke-free casinos and bars in Washoe County, Nevada. Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy.
• Crosbie, E. & Schmidt, L. (2020). Commentary on Hilton et al. (2020). Expanding social discourse analysis to gain traction on the broad commercial determinants of health. Addiction.
• Mialon, M., Charry, D. A. G., Cediel, G., Crosbie, E., Scagliusia, F. B. & Tamayo, E. M. P. (2020). “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 Nutrition.^***
• Mialon, M., Crosbie, E. & Sacks, G. (2020). Mapping of food industry strategies to influence public health policy, research and practice in South Africa. International Journal of Public Health.
• Schmidt, L., Mialon, M., Kearns, C. & Crosbie, E. (2020). Transnational corporations, obesity and planetary health: Coca-Cola in Colombia. The Lancet Planetary Health.^***
• Bhatta, D. N., Crosbie, E., Bialous, S. A., et al. (2020). Defending comprehensive tobacco control policy implementation in Nepal from tobacco industry interference (2011-2018). Nicotine Tobacco Reservation.
• Crosbie, E. & Schmidt, L. (2020). Preemption in tobacco control: A framework for other areas of public health. American Journal of Public Health, 110(3), 345-350.

2019

• Crosbie, E. (2019). Response to the letter to the editor regarding: Removing the last billboard for the tobacco industry: Tobacco standardized packaging in Ireland. Health Policy, 123(10), 936-937.
• Crosbie, E. (2019). Removing the last billboard for the tobacco industry: Tobacco standardized packaging in Ireland. Health Policy, 123, 932-935.
• Lee, K. & Crosbie, E. (2019). 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". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 8(9), 550-553.
• Bhatta, D. A., Bialous, S., Crosbie, E. & Glantz, S. A. (2019). Exceeding FCTC obligations: Nepal overcoming tobacco industry interference to enact a comprehensive tobacco control policy. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 21(3), 331-338.
• Wright, K. E., Lucero, J. & Crosbie, E. (2019). "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. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition. Advance online publication. 
• Bhatta, D. A., Crosbie, E., Bialous, S. & Glantz, S. A. (2019). Tobacco control in Nepal during a time of government turmoil (1960-2006). Tobacco Control, 28(1), 113-120. 
• Crosbie, E., Hatefi, A. & Schmidt, L. (2019). Emerging threats of global preemption to nutrition labelling. Health Policy and Planning, 34(8), 567-569. 
• Labonté, R., Crosbie, E., McNamara, C. & Gleeson, D. (2019). USMCA (NAFTA 2.0): Tightening the constraints on the right to regulate for public health. Globalization and Health, 15, Article 35.
• Crosbie, E., Schillinger, D. & Schmidt, L. A. (2019). State Preemption to Prevent Local Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages. JAMA Internal Medicine, 179(2), 291-292.
• Crosbie, E., Bialous, S. & Glantz, S. A. (2019). Memoranda of Understanding as a tobacco industry strategy to interfere with Illicit Trade on tobacco products. Tobacco Control, 28(2), 291-292.
• Crosbie, E., Eckford, R. & Bialous, S. (2019). Containing diffusion: the tobacco industry's multipronged trade strategy to block tobacco standardized packaging. Tobacco Control, 28(2), 195-205.

2018

• Crosbie, E. & Thomson G. (2018). Regulatory chills: tobacco industry legal threats and the politics of tobacco standardized packaging in New Zealand. The New Zealand Medical Journal, 131(1473), 25-41.
• Crosbie, E., Thomson, G., Freeman, B. & Bialous, S. (2018). Advancing progressive health policy to reduce NCDs amidst international commercial opposition: Tobacco standardized packaging in Australia. Global Public Health, 13(3), 295-310. 
• Crosbie, E., Sosa, P. & Glantz, S. A. (2018). Defending strong tobacco packaging and labeling regulations in Uruguay: transnational tobacco control network vs. Philip Morris International. Tobacco Control, 27(2), 185-194.^***
• Uang, R., Crosbie, E. & Glantz, S. A. (2018). Tobacco control implementation in a middle-income country: transnational tobacco control network overcoming tobacco industry opposition in Colombia. Global Public Health, 13(8), 1050-1064.^***
  

2017

• Crosbie, E., Sosa, P. & Glantz, S. A. (2017). The importance of continued engagement during the implementation phase of tobacco control policies in a middle-income country: The case of Costa Rica. Tobacco Control, 26(1), 60-68.^***
• Uang, R., Crosbie, E. & Glantz, S. A. (2018). Smokefree implementation in Colombia: monitoring, outside funding and business support. Salud Pública de México, 58(2), 126-132.^*** 
• Crosbie, E. (2018). Advancing corporate rights at the expense of public health: A brief examination of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Journal of International Policy Solutions, 14(1), 85-91.
• Crosbie, E., Sosa, P. & Glantz, S. A. (2018). Costa Rica's successful implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Overcoming decades of industry dominance. Salud Pública de México, 58(1).^***

2014

• Crosbie, E. (2014). Crosbie response to TPP. American Journal of Public Health, 104(12), e5.
• Crosbie, E., Gonzalez, M. & Glantz, S. A. (2014). Health preemption behind closed doors: Trade agreements and fast track authority. American Journal of Public Health, 104(8), e1-e7.
• Crosbie, E. & Glantz, S. A. (2014). Tobacco industry argues domestic trademark laws and international treaties preclude cigarette health warning labels, despite consistent legal advice that the argument is invalid. Tobacco Control, 23(3), e7.
• Hiilamo, H., Crosbie, E. & Glantz, S. A. (2014). The evolution of health warning labels on cigarette packs: the role of precedents and tobacco industry strategies to block diffusion. Tobacco Control, 23(1),e2.

2012

• Crosbie, E., Sebrié, E. M. & Glantz, S. A. (2014). Tobacco industry success in Costa Rica: the importance of FCTC article 5.3. Salud Pública de México, 54(1), 28-38.^***
• Crosbie, E., Sebrié, E. M. & Glantz, S. A. (2014). Strong advocacy led to successful implementation of smokefree Mexico City. Tobacco Control, 20(1), 64-72.^***

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

Education

• Ph.D., Politics and Public Health, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2016
• M.A., International Relations, San Francisco State University, 2010
• B.A., History, San Francisco State University, 2007