Members of the Kick Big Soda Out of Sport campaign

The authors of this op ed are partners of the “Kick Big Soda Out of Sport” campaign – a group of leaders of public health organizations in support a campaign to end Big’s Soda’s sponsorship of sporting events globally. 

• Trish Cotter, global lead, Food Policy Program, Vital Strategies (US, Australia)
• Isabel Barbosa, associate director and Oscar Cabrera, director, Health and Human Rights Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Georgetown Law (US)
• Alejandro Calvillo, director, El Poder del Consumidor (Mexico)
• Yessika Hoyos-Morales, chairperson, El Colectivo de Abogados “José Alvear Restreopo" - CAJAR(Colombia)
• Maisha Hutton, executive director, Healthy Caribbean Coalition (Barbados, Jamaica)
• Paula Johns, co-founder and director, ACT Promoção da Saúde (Brazil)
• Nzama Mbalati, chief executive officer, HEALA (South Africa)
• Carolina Piñeros, executive director, Red PaPaz (Colombia)
• Barry M. Popkin, PhD, W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (US)
• Veronica Schoj, MD, vice president, Food and Nutrition Programs, Global Health Advocacy Incubator (US, Argentina)