A practical guide on how to conduct research on the impact of corporations on global health and global health governance, which draws on the theoretical and methodological insights of a range of scholarly disciplines.

Preface / List of acronyms / List of illustrations / 1. Corporations and global health governance: A research agenda, Lee, Hawkins and Wiist / PART I: DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO ANALYSING CORPORATIONS / 2. Political science, Hawkins / 3. International political economy, Eckhardt / 4. Social Policy, Holden and Farnsworth / 5. Historical analysis, MacKenzie / 6. Criminology, Michalowski / 7. Anthropology, Parker and Kenworthy / 8. Public health, Wipfli and Mack / 9. Development Studies, Carnegie / 10. Media analysis and corporate communication, Kline / PART II: METHODS AND DATA SOURCES FOR ANALYSING CORPORATIONS / 11. Interviewing key informants from the corporate sector, Hawkins and Cassidy / 12. The role of ethnography in analysing corporations, Carrillo Botero / 13. Oral history, Stevenson / 14. Participation of corporations in international organizations, Derman / 15. Studying the influence of corporations on democratic processes, Wiist / 16. Analysing corporate documents, MacKenzie and Holden / 17. Social media research methods, Freeman / 18. Making use of business and financial data, Lee / 19. Using freedom of information requests, Freeman / 20. Tracking down and using grey literature, Taylor and Sullivan / 21. Legal and ethical considerations, Lee, Hawkins & Silva / 22. Developing a data management plan, Carrillo Botero and Fang /About the Contributors / Index

No plan to improve global health can succeed without defining appropriate roles for transnational corporations. Researching Corporations and Global Health Governance: An Interdisciplinary Guide provides essential guidance to neophyte and experienced researchers on the methods, data sources and research designs that can provide policy makers with the evidence they need to protect public health from harmful corporate practices. -- Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, City University of New York, author of Lethal but Legal Corporations, Consumption and Protecting Public HealthThis is an essential and highly recommended resource for anyone concerned with the growing influence of corporations in the governance of global health issues. As a clearly written and broad ranging research guide, this book is full of valuable and much needed information for students, scholars and policy makers alike. -- Richard Smith, Professor and Dean of Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineBefore we can lessen the burden of disease caused by globalized commerce, we must first understand the power behind it. This practical guide offers researchers and policy-makers a much-needed toolkit to build better ways to foster global health. -- Cynthia Callard, Executive Director, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada

Kelley Lee is Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance and Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, 50 book chapters and 14 books including Global Health and International Relations (2012), Asia's Role in Governing Global Health (2012) and Transformations in Global Health Governance (2014). Dr. Benjamin Hawkins is a Lecturer in Global Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, teaching global health policy. His current research focuses on the role of research evidence and corporate actors in health policy making at the national and global levels and the impact in regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements on health. In particular his work focuses on the global alcohol and tobacco industries. Prior to entering academia he worked in sales and marketing for the alcohol producer Diageo.