Dr Nicholas Chartres is an Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy Faculty of Medicine & Health at the University of Sydney, and the scientific lead of the Center to End Corporate Harm. He specializes in studying the commercial determinants of health — examining how corporations in the chemicals, fossil fuels, and nutrition industries shape scientific evidence and delay regulation to protect their interests at the expense of public health.
Nick's study published in the world's number one medical journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, established corporations and the health harming products they make as a leading vector for chronic disease.
As lead author of the first systematic study on how industry sponsorship influences all nutrition research outcomes, Nick has pioneered methods to identify, quantify, and reduce corporate bias in science.
His work now spans microplastics, environmental chemicals, and systematic review methodology in environmental health. Nick is also a research methodologist and works with national and international organizations and agencies, including the World Health Organization, to conduct reviews of the evidence and develop guidelines using empirically based methods to ensure improved consistency, greater transparency, and reduced bias in their development.
He is a committed science communicator, regularly translating complex research for the public through broadcast media, podcasts, and written journalism.
