International Trade Agreements: Vehicle for Public Health?

International Trade Agreements: Vehicle for Public Health?

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Panelists:

Jason W. Sapsin, JD, MPH, Assistant Scientist, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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Anne Marie Kimball, MD, MPH, FACPM, Director, APEC Emerging Infections
Network; and Professor, Epidemiology and Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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Moderator: David Fidler, JD, BCL, Professor of Law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow, Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, IN
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Learning Objectives:

Describe major international trade agreements and their public health-related provisions;
Describe empirical findings on impact of WTO and SPS on public health in U.S.; and
Explain local public health responses to trade agreement consequences

Resource Material:

Information resources compiled by the World Health Organization on globalization, trade, and health are available at http://www.who.int/trade/resource/en/. Of particular interest should be WTO Agreements and Public Health: A Joint Study by the WHO and the WTO Secretariat.Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization and World Trade Organization, 2002, available at http://www.who.int/trade/resource/wtoagreements/en/. A recent critical overview of the relationship between public health and international trade is E. R. Shaffer, H. Waitzkin, J. Brenner, and R. Jasso-Aguilar, "Global Trade and Public Health," American Journal of Public Health 2005; 95(1): 23-34.

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