VarietyRoku Names Patrick Harris SVP of Global Media Revenue
VarietyRoku Names Patrick Harris SVP of Global Media Revenue
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https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/roku-patrick-harris-svp-global-media-revenue-1236666063/
Evelyne de LeeuwHealth equity through land use planning, by #PatrickHarris of @CHETRE_au for @urban_healthy: https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7edba74e-0782-4d09-a620-c4262bcfd45f/LUPEHO_FR_FINAL.pdf
Astute as always, #PatrickHarris (why aren’t you on Mastodon yet?) finds a flaw in a review of reviews of theories of the policy process in health:
“Health Policy Analysis Requires Attending to Institutions”
Health Policy Analysis Requires Attending to Institutions; Comment on “Modelling the Health Policy Process: One Size Fits All or Horses for Courses?”
Powell and Manion present an important review of reviews about health and policy research. They zero in on theories of the policy process as the most likely to unearth what is really going on in health policy. Here I contend that their analysis insufficiently attends to institutions. Powell and Manion situate ‘institutions’ (with ‘Ideas’ and ‘Interests’) as a ‘health policy process models’ that ‘tend to’ list factors rather than connect them. Rather, I show how there is a rich history of considering institutions in the political science literature that is underconsidered by Powell and Manion . By necessity for a Public Health audience I quickly pull back the covers on ‘rigour’ and ‘causation’ to demonstrate what is ‘fit for purpose’ in rigorous institution focussed policy analysis. I conclude by arguing how institutionally focussed public health policy analysis is vital for understanding and addressing heath inequities. That focus necessitates research that provides better, explicit, conceptualisations of power in health policy: especially drawing out the roles played by structure and agency. I offer some recent examples.