4317.0 Mechanisms through Which Trade Influences Health

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
Global trade policy and practices have an effect on human health, worker safety and health, migration of health workers, access to medicines, the natural environment and democratic participation that future public health workers must be able to address. This session will look at trade policy mechanisms through which health is influenced.
Session Objectives: 1. List at least three mechanisms through which trade or trade policy are influenced, 2. Describe at least three current issues in trade and health of concern to public health professionals.
Moderator:
Donald W. Zeigler, PhD

2:30pm
Corporate social responsibility, human trafficking, and health: An analytic framework
Roy Ahn, MPH, ScD, Elizabeth Cafferty, MSc, Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos, MD, MPH, Elaine Alpert, MD, MPH and Thomas F. Burke, MD
2:50pm
Trade, social justice and the health of indigenous peoples
Bill Wiist, DHSc, MPH
     
3:10pm
Cafta And Intellectual Property In Guatemala: Have Stronger IP Laws Reduced Access To Medicines?
Joshua Rolnick, ScB
3:30pm
Collaboration or consultation? Deliberating the health consequences of trade policy in the European Union and United States
Holly Jarman, PhD
     

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

Organized by: Trade and Health Forum
Endorsed by: Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community, Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health, Socialist Caucus

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

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