16. Responsible Consumption and Production

Sustainable Development Goal: 12 Responsible Consumption and Production focuses on ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Quinn Grundy is a registered nurse and an Assistant Professor with the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto and a Faculty Associate with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. She is a fellow with the WHO’s Collaborating Centre for Governance, Accountability, and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector and the Centre for Sustainable Health Systems at the University of Toronto. Dr. Grundy's research explores the interactions between medically-related industry and the health system, health professionals, and the production of health-related research and the implications for equitable, sustainable public health care. She is the author of Infiltrating healthcare: How marketing works underground to influence nurses (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).

Daniel Eisenkraft Klein is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. His SSHRC-funded doctoral research centres on how the pharmaceutical industry frames its involvement in the policymaking sphere. Daniel is presently also a Research Consultant for the Opioid Industry Documents Archive at John's Hopkins University, and has previously taught on the Commercial Determinants of Health at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Health Sciences.

CREDITS: This podcast is co-hosted by Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero, Director of the Centre for Global Health, and Ophelia Michaelides, Manager of the Centre for Global Health, at the DLSPH, U of T, and produced by Elizabeth Loftus. Audio editing is by Sylvia Lorico. Music is produced by Julien Fortier and Patrick May. It is made with the support of the School of Cities at U of T.