3379.0 Public Health Strategies to Address Trade and Trade Policy

Monday, October 29, 2012: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This session focuses on public health strategies to protect public health within trade and trade agreements.
Session Objectives: Describe how trade affects public health. Discuss strategies that can be employed to protect public health within trade and trade agreements.
Moderator:
Timothy Mackey, MAS

2:30pm
Welcoming Remarks
2:34pm
Consequences of the trans-Pacific free trade agreement for access to medicines
Peter Maybarduk, JD and Burcu Kilic, PhD
           
2:48pm
Relentless challenges: An update on current challenges to nations' alcohol and tobacco public health measures by means of international trade agreements and what we can do about it
Donald Zeigler, PhD
3:02pm
Addressing public health impacts of multinational enterprises: The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
Joshua Yang, PhD, MPH
3:16pm
Global Trade and Health Activism: A Report from the People's Health Assembly
Shelley K. White, MPH, PhD and Jonathan White, PhD
3:30pm
Discussion

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

Organized by: Trade and Health Forum
Endorsed by: HIV/AIDS, Occupational Health and Safety, Socialist Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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