by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 2, 2026 | CDoH, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, Public Health, Publications, Systems thinking
Happy to announce a new article from Luc Hagenaars, Grant Ennis, and myself in JAMA Health Forum on the “Harms of Framing Obesity as a Disease of Individuals.” GLP-1s have been heralded as wonder drugs, finally providing relief from obesogenic environments...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 12, 2026 | Decolonization, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Plants, Public Health, Publications, Tobacco Industry
New article out in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science exploring the most controversial plant on Earth. The paradox: Tobacco kills 8+ million people yearly through cigarettes. Yet for Indigenous peoples, it’s sacred — a messenger plant, vehicle of prayer,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 10, 2026 | agroecology, beyond idealism, Biomimicry, Biophilia, permaculture, Publications, SolarPunk, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
I’m thrilled to share that my latest essay just published in Aeon explores solarpunk—a vision of the future where technology and nature aren’t opposing forces, but collaborative partners. This biosemiotic futurism explores what would a biophilic technology...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 27, 2025 | Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, Priorities, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Tobacco Industry
This follows up on my article published last year: Hendlin YH, Han EL, Ling PM. Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry’s endgame. BMJ Global Health. 2024;9(2):e013866. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013866 discussing how “To revamp their image, Big Tobacco relies...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 21, 2024 | Conflicts of Interest, death, Discursive Gap, duh, e-waste, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, Priorities, Public Health, Publications, Tobacco Industry
A new article I wrote with colleagues at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has just been published in BMJ Global Health. It investigates the multi-decade plan of various tobacco...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 27, 2023 | Public Health, Publications, Syndemics, Systems thinking
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