3351.0 Public Health Strategies to Address Trade and Trade Policy

Monday, November 8, 2010: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This session will provide examples of research, policy, law, licensing and advocacy strategies that public health can use to ensure that health concerns are addressed within the trade policy environment.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe several strategies to ensure that health needs are addressed in global trade, particularly related to trade policies. 2. Describe why research is needed to understand the effects of trade policy on health and what type of policy research is needed to ensure health concerns are incorporated.
Moderator:
Karen Valenzuela

2:30pm
Role of Local Manufacturers in Producing Essential Malaria Commodities: Nigeria and Uganda Case Studies
Kenyetta Lovings, MA, Bryan Thomas Callahan, PhD, Richard Tren, MSc and Jasson Urbach, MSc
        
2:50pm
Effect of Enhanced IPR Provisions in Draft FTAs on Access to Medicines in Thailand
Noah Metheny, Esquire
     
3:10pm
Efforts to reform trade policy on intellectual property that limits access to medicine
Michael Palmedo
     
3:30pm
Does an MPH Degree Mean You are Ready to Take on Trade and Economic Globalization?
Shelley K. White, MPH

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Trade and Health Forum
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Social Work, Women's Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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