Some of these are co-authored, in which case all author names are listed. Please email me for a pdf of any article

Public health & obesity

2025    Ideals are important, but our reality has other ideas (on Barnhill & Bonotti, Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy & Milburn, Food, Justice, and Animals). Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (early online)
2025    D Goodwin, L Clarry, G Williams & S Fovargue. What we do and do not know about public inquiries: a narrative review. Contemporary Social Science (early online)
2017    Discrimination and obesity. K Lippert-Rasmussen (ed), Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination (Routledge), 264-275
​2015     The IDEFICS intervention: what can we learn for public policy? Obesity Reviews, 16(Suppl. 2), 151–161 (open)
2014     K Voigt, S Nicholls & G Williams, Childhood Obesity: Ethical and Policy Issues (Oxford University Press) – co-authored book​

Medical & research ethics

2020   Explaining epistemic injustice in medicine: tightrope walking, double binds, paths of least resistance, and the invisibility of power positions to those who occupy them [preprint]. European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare 8(3), 323-335
2017     G Williams & I Pigeot. Consent and confidentiality in the light of recent demands for data sharing. Biometrical Journal 59(2), 240–250
2012     Children as means and ends in large-scale medical research. Bioethics 26(8), 422-430
2012     G Williams & R Chadwick. Responsibilities for health care: Kantian reflections. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21(2), 155–165

​Podcasts, blogs & presentations

2022    Despair and abandonment: why I gave up writing about corporate food systems [spotify podcast]. – talk to UBVO "Oxford Obesity" with accompanying pdf slides 
2022    The language of corporate social responsibility (interview with E Darics, B De Clerck, V Koller). Words and Actions, episode 25
​​2017    “Big Food” and children’s health. Briefing and presentation for the I.Family Study final conference, Brussels
2016    Evidence and understanding for complex problems [video]. Plenary talk to Uppsala Health Summit on "Ending Childhood Obesity"
2016    Forget about fats – it’s processed food we should be worried about. The Conversation (also Mail Online and New Zealand Herald)
2014    Picturing childhood obesity: what’s behind the cover? Lancaster University blog
2014    Empirical findings should inform policy – but cannot dictate it. I.Family “Point of view” 
2014    Childhood obesity: what’s philosophy got to do with it? Lancaster University blog
2012    Regulating food companies: restricting or empowering? I.Family “Point of view” 

Some further papers

2015     S Nicholls, H Pohlabeln, I De Bourdeaudhuij, C Chadjigeorgiou, W Gwozdz, A Hebestreit, F Lauria, L Lissner, D Molnár, A Santaliestra-Pasías, T Veidebaum & G Williams [senior author]. Parents’ evaluation of the IDEFICS intervention. Obesity Reviews, 16(Suppl. 2), 103-118 (open)
2011  D Wickins-Drazilova & G Williams. Ethics and the evaluation of obesity intervention studies on children. International Journal of Obesity 35 (Suppl. 1), S. 24-29 (open)
2011     D Wickins-Drazilova & G Williams. Childhood obesity: ethics and public policy.  L Moreno, I Pigeot & W Ahrens (eds), Epidemiology of Obesity in Children and Adolescents (Springer), 7-20
2005     Bioethics and large-scale biobanking: individualistic ethics and collective projects. Life Sciences, Society and Policy 1(2), 50-66 (open)
2005     Human gene banks. Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics 12(1), 1-2, plus exchange with Jon Merz in next issue, 12(2), 10-11 (also in D Steinberg (ed), Biomedical Ethics (University Press of New England, 2007), 157-161)
2004     D Schroeder & G Williams. Human genetic banking: altruism, benefit and consent. New Genetics and Society 23(1), 89-103 (also in P Glasner (ed), Reconfiguring Nature (Ashgate, 2004), 148-166)
2004     M Levitt & G Williams. Ethical issues: overview.​ K Kempf-Leonard (ed),  Encyclopedia of Social Measurement (Elsevier), vol. 1, 815-825
As part of the IDEFICS and I.Family studies, I have also contributed to a range of collaborative scientific papers exploring our epidemiological and intervention research findings – these are listed on my full Lancaster University page.