The purpose of the project is: (1) to make policymakers and administrators more sensitive to the systemic effects, ethical challenges, and policy implications of partnerships with industry; (2) to provide them with the concepts and language that will help them identify and articulate the these effects, challenges, and implications;  (3) to provide them with some tools to better assess the ethics of public-private partnerships; and (4) to foster policy discussion about how public actors (including international organizations) can best meet their goals in constrained funding environments.  In addition, I hope to broaden the scholarly literature and discourse about interactions between industry on the one hand and the public sector on the other.  Much of the work in this arena focuses on relationships with the pharmaceutical industry in the context of drug research.  Although this is important work, in my view it is also important to focus attention on interactions with other industry actors (notably, multinational food corporations) in the context of research that is intended to promote public health and/or health policy interventions.