Publications with Authorship
Baker, P., Friel, S., Gearhart, J., Gopakumar, K.M., Mange, C., Miller, K., Naik, A., Oluwafemi, A., Ong, M., Silva, D., Torreele, E., and Wood, B. (2025). Corporate accountability in global health governance needs a rethink: Beyond rankings and voluntary corporate measures. Statement of an Independent Expert Group on Corporate Monitoring and Accountability in Global Health. United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, Kuala Lumpur. https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10396/IEG_Corporate_Accountability_December_25.pdf
Prescott, S. L., Logan, A. C., LaFata, E. M., Naik, A., Nelson, D. H., Robinson, M. B., & Soble, L. (2024). Crime and Nourishment: A Narrative Review Examining Ultra-Processed Foods, Brain, and Behavior. Dietetics, 3(3), 318-345. https://doi.org/10.3390/dietetics3030025
Prescott, S. L., Naik, A., & Logan, A. C. (2024). Not Food: Time to Call Ultra-Processed Products by Their True Name. Gastronomy, 2(2), 47-56. https://doi.org/10.3390/gastronomy2020004
Mialon, M., Serodio, P. M., Crosbie, E., Teicholz, N., Naik, A., & Carriedo, A. (2024). Conflicts of interest for members of the US 2020 dietary guidelines advisory committee. Public Health Nutrition, 27(1), e69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980022000672
Naik, A. (2023b, September 13). Food is her fight and her freedom: Regaining ground in rural India. Women in Rural India Reclaiming Their Food and Land. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/food_is_her_fight_and_her_freedom_regaining_ground_in_rural_india
Dorado, D., & Naik, A. (Eds.). (2023). Human Rights, Rights of Nature & Business: Perspectives and Challenges in the 21st Century. FORO Revista de Derecho Law Journal, (39). https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/foro/issue/view/239/69
Naik, A., & Carreido, A. (2023). (rep.). Big Food’s Big Black Box: The Problematic Promises on Plastic – How the food industry undermines its role in fueling the global crisis of plastic pollution. Corporate Accountability. Retrieved from https://corporateaccountability.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Black-Box-report-formatted_Plastics-section_2023.pdf.
Mialon, M., & Naik, A. (2023). A discussion of stronger public policies to protect and promote healthy diets: what can the US learn from other countries?. World Nutrition, 14(1), 86-99. https://doi.org/10.26596/wn.202314186-99
Naik, A. (2023, July 6). Op-Ed: Food Industry Giants Must Fix Their Plastic Pollution. Civil Eats. Retrieved from https://civileats.com/2023/07/06/op-ed-plastic-recycling-has-failed-food-companies-need-to-step-up/.
Dentico, N., & Naik, A. (2023, March 13). Opinion: Pandemic Accord Text Falls Short of Expectations. Global Issues. https://www.globalissues.org/news/2023/03/13/33303
Naik, A., & Carriedo, A. (2023). Industry needs the intervention, not our kids: A cautionary approach toward the new AAP recommendations and the DGAC 2025. World Nutrition, 14(1), 100-102. https://doi.org/10.26596/wn.2023141100-102
Naik, A., & Dentico, N. (2023). Digging into the hardware of the Zero draft: Public statement on the zero draft of the Pandemic Treaty. Geneva Global Health Hub. https://g2h2.org/posts/digging/
Carriedo, A., Naik, A., Monsalve, S., & Wolpold-Bosien, M. (2023). (rep.). A World Food Forum Captured by Corporate Interests? Mapping corporate actors behind WFF partnerships and narratives. FIAN International and Corporate Accountability. Retrieved from https://www.fian.org/files/is/htdocs/wp11102127_GNIAANVR7U/www/files/WEB_FACTSHEET_13_10_2023_v3.pdf.
Dentico, N., & Naik, A. (2022, July 20). Who Gets To Sit At The Table in Pandemic Treaty Negotiations? Debate Opens Pandora’s Box of Vested Interests . Health Policy Watch. Retrieved from https://healthpolicy-watch.news/who-pandemic-treaty-negotiations/.
Naik, A., Jackson R. R. (2022, October 6). Statement: Climate Talks Shouldn’t Have Corporate Sponsors. Corporate Accountability. Retrieved October 10, 2022, from https://www.corporateaccountability.org/media/corporate-sponsored-climate-talks/.
Naik, A., Faircloth, T. J., Dreger, C., & Adler, S. (2022). (rep.). Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry’s Deepening Influence on Global Food Governance. Corporate Accountability and FIAN International. Retrieved June 11, 2022, from https://www.fian.org/files/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf.
Suarez, S. M, & Naik, A. (2022, February 14). Opinion: How to protect global food policy from Corporate Capture – Devex. Devex: Global Views, Food Systems. Retrieved June 11, 2022, from https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-how-to-protect-global-food-policy-from-corporate-capture-102549.
Mialon, M., Serodio, P., Crosbie, E., Teicholz, N., Naik, A., & Carriedo, A. (2022). Conflicts of interest for members of the U.S. 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Public Health Nutrition, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980022000672
Naik, A., Dorrado, D., & Dentico, N. (2022). Negotiating a World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Treaty by Taking a Public Private Partnership Approach? Essential safeguards and transparency rules for corporate sector engagement dangerously absent from Conceptual Zero Draft. https://g2h2.org/posts/inb-openletter-december2022/
Dorado, D., Monsalve, S., Naik, A. et al. Towards Building Comprehensive Legal Frameworks for Corporate Accountability in Food Governance. Development 64, 236–244 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-021-00319-8
Balanya, B., Naik, A., Jackson, R. R., & Sabido, P. (2021). (rep.). Still A Big Con: How Big Polluters are using “net zero” to block meaningful action at COP26. Corporate Accountability. Retrieved June 11, 2022, from https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/FINAL-%20Still%20A%20Big%20Con%20factfile.pdf.
Naik, A., Lee, J., & Guroff, N. (2020). (rep.). Partnership for an Unhealthy Planet. Corporate Accountability. Retrieved June 11, 2022, from https://www.corporateaccountability.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Partnership-for-an-unhealthy-planet.pdf.
Naik, A. (2013, September). A smart and sustainable future. Insite: A Walk Through the World of IIID and Beyond, 6(9), 54-57.
Naik, A. (2013, May). How higher ed helps shape the future of green building [Web log post]. Retrieved November 20, 2016, from https://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/05/02/how-higher-ed-helps-shape-future-green-building.
Feder, J., Hattan, A. S., Naik, A., Murphy, K., Davis, N., Esiet, U., Vithlani, K., Rigaud, G. (2010, July). Advancing education for sustainability: Teaching the concepts of sustainable building to all students [PDF]. Boston, MA: Second Nature in partnership with United States Green Building Council. [Available for download: https://www.centerforgreenschools.org/sites/default/files/resource-files/Advancing Ed for Sust_Strategy Paper_Final.pdf]
Naik, A. (2010, April). Light as air. Green By Design: Your Guide to Eco Friendly Living, 30-33.
Feder, J., Hattan, A. S., & Naik, A. (2010). Teaching the concepts of green building to all students: A call to action. In J. Schwartz (Ed.), Green careers in building and landscaping (pp. 5-8). Lawrenceville, NJ: Peterson’s. [ISBN: 0-7689-2911-3]. [Available for download: https://archive.org/details/greencareersinbu0000unse_f1d4/mode/2up?q=%22sandra+gaylord%22]
Naik, A. (2010). Minority-serving institutions championing the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. In M. Daley (Ed.), Sustainable campuses: Building green at minority-serving institutions (pp. 58-61). Vancouver, BC: Kyoto Publishing. [ISBN: 978-0-9813326-4-2][Available for download: https://web.archive.org/web/20160827222227/buildinggreennetwork.org/GreenReport/PDF/Sustainable_Campuses.pdf]
Contributions in Research and Policy Projects
Reviewer: Built to fail? World’s largest carbon offset projects unlikely to deliver promised emissions reductions despite reforms (2025, June), from https://corporateaccountability.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/BUILT-TO-FAIL.pdf
Team Researcher: Big Con: The Big Con: How Big Polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny (2021, June), from https://www.corporateaccountability.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-Big-Con_EN.pdf
Primary Researcher: Pandya, Y. (2014). Elements of Spacemaking (2nd ed.). Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Mapin Publishing.
[ISBN: 978-8189995744] [Available for download: https://issuu.com/mapin/docs/elements_of_spacemaking]
Acknowledged for contributing strategic research and developing various case-studies, explanatory sketches, and design illustrations
Primary Researcher: Pandya, Y. (2014). Concept of space in traditional Indian architecture (2nd ed.). Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Mapin Publishing. [ISBN: 978-1935677291] [Available for download: https://issuu.com/mapin/docs/concepts_of_space]
Acknowledged for executing research, production, and editing for architectural drawings and miniature-style architectural graphics
Co-researcher: 2022-Present: How land rights and food security translate into empowerment for women in South Asia [Ongoing]
2022-2023: Corporate Capture of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [with FIAN International]
2022-2023: Co-editorship of Latin American Law Journal FORO – Issue on Human rights, rights of nature, and business: perspectives and challenges in the 21st century
2021-2022: How industry is attempting to influence the development of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans [Resulted in publications]
2021-2022: How Big Polluters are using “net zero” to block meaningful action [Resulted in publications]
2018-2021: Evolution and status of land rights for women in South Asia [Resulted in conference papers and presentations]
2018-2019: Marketization and financialization of healthcare systems in Africa [Resulted in a publication]
Conferences and Presentations
Panelist: “Rethinking Corporate Accountability in Global Health Beyond Rankings & Voluntary Measure,” January 21, 2026
Panel facilitation, “The Bodies of Women in Wars of Men,” December 2025
Panelist: “2025 US Tobacco Industry Interference Index Launch,” October 2025
Presentation at the Nova Campfire 2024: “Exposing the Tactics of Food Giants: Progress Toward Corporate Accountability in the Food System,” March 2024
Presentation at the Nova Annual Conference 2023: “Food Justice and Childhood Obesity: Industry Needs the Intervention, Not Our Kids,” January 2024
Webinar Panel as part of the “Reimagined in America” series’16th episode, “Moving Food and Beverage Corporate Policies Toward Equity,” September 2023
Seminar Presentation, “Corporate Capture of the Convention on Biological Diversity”, May 2022
Seminar Presentation, “Can the FAO shield itself from conflicts of interests with transnational corporations?”, November 2021
Conference Presentation, “Who Sows and Who Reaps: Investigation of Forces Affecting Women’s Land Rights in the Shadows of Neoliberal India,” Annual Conference of British Association of South Asian Studies, April 2021
Panel Participation, “US Election: કોણ બનશે રાષ્ટ્રપતિ? જો પરિણામો સુપ્રીમ કૉર્ટ પહોંચ્યા તો શું?”, BBC, November 2020
Panel Participation, “Donald Trump VS Joe Biden: વિશ્વના સૌથી શક્તિશાળી નેતા માટે આજે થયું મતદાન: US Election 2020”, BBC, November 2020
Conference Presentation, “Critical interventions for public health: Shielding policy from industry interference”, National Annual Conference of the American Public Health Association, November 2019
Conference Presentation, “Mapping and Moving from Healthcare Marketization: Advancing Human Right to Health by Unraveling Disruptive Influence of Privatization,” Eastern Sociology Society, March 2019
Conference Presentation, “One Half Saffron, the Other Half Stolen: Socio-political Inclusion Endangering Life-enriching Agencies of India`s Indigenous Peoples,” Eastern Sociology Society, March 2019
