The Center to End Corporate Harm (CECH) brings together scientists, researchers, and public health leaders who study health-harming industries and their influence on science, policy, and democracy. In collaboration with the UCSF Industry Documents Library, CECH works to identify, analyze, and prevent industry-driven disease, while developing strategies to counter the destructive influence of corporations that put profits over people.
Drawing on more than 20 years of scientific research, education, public engagement, and policy work connected to the Industry Documents Library, CECH aims to expose and counteract harmful corporate actions that undermine science, health, and democracy. CECH uses the industry’s own words to expose the collaborations, strategies, and actions that prioritize profits over people, and works to change the rules and systems that corporations have helped put in place to favor harmful products over public health and democracy.
CECH's vision is a just, healthy, and democratic society where public health policies are guided by unbiased science, free from corporate influence, and centered on equitable health for all.
The Center to End Corporate Harm is directed by Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, at Stanford University.
The steering committee includes:
Nicholas Chartres, PhD, MHumNutr, Lead Scientific Advisor, Center to End Corporate Harm, and Senior Research Fellow, The University of Sydney
Pamela Ling, MD, MPH, Director, UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH, Professor, UCSF School of Medicine
Chris Shaffer, MS, University Librarian, UCSF Library and Industry Documents Library