3179.0 Public Health Strategies to Address Trade and Trade Policy

Monday, October 31, 2011: 10:30 AM
Oral
This session will provide examples of research, policy, law, licensing and advocacy strategies that public health professionals and others can use to ensure that health concerns are addressed within the trade policy environment.
Session Objectives: Describe several strategies to ensure that health needs are addressed in global trade, particularly related to trade policies. 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:
Bill Wiist, DHSc, MPH

10:30 AM
Dealing with corporate interference in health policy through governance: The Uruguayan Declaration on Trade and Health
Hadii Mamudu, PhD, MPA and Sreenivas P. Veeranki, MD, MPH
     
10:50 AM
Lessons from SARS and H1N1/A: Employing a WHO-WTO forum to ensure balance in economic and public health actions in emergency response
Timothy Mackey, MAS and Bryan Liang, MD, JD, PhD
     
11:10 AM
Expanding developing nations' access to brand name drugs by understanding impediments to compulsory licensing
Angela Morley, JD, MPH
     
  
11:30 AM
Opportunities for corporations to protect the public's health by choosing to do no harm: A legal analysis
Lainie Rutkow, JD, PhD, MPH and Stephen Teret, JD, MPH
     

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Organized by: Trade and Health Forum
Endorsed by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion, Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus

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