School of Social and Political Science

Research interests

Nason Maani is a Senior Lecturer in Inequalities and Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh’s Global Health Policy Unit, in the School of Social and Political Science, and serves as Deputy Director of the Local Health, Global Profits Research theme in the UKRI Population Health Improvement Network. His research focuses on the commercial determinants of health, seeking to describe the mechanisms through which commercial actors affect health inequalities, knowledge, and public discourse. This includes primary research and evidence synthesis on the alcohol, sugar sweetened beverage, firearm, social media, and fossil fuel industries, as well as policy research on the relationships between underinvestment, commercial influence and inequity. 

He is the editor of the book "The Commercial Determinants of Health", released by Oxford University Press in 2022, and is the author of the upcoming book “A Healthy Profit”, published in 2026 by Oxford University Press.

He also contributes to writing in more public facing fora, and hosts Money Power Health, a podcast on the commercial drivers of population health (available on Apple, Spotify). 

Nason welcomes contact from potential PhD candidates interested in research in mixed methods research the social and commercial determinants of health.