by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 26, 2020 | Trade for health | Latest Developments
Mr Valdis DombrovskisExecutive Vice President Commissioner for Trade European CommissionBrussels 22 October 2020Subject: The urgent need to renew the free trade agreement expert group.Dear Executive Vice President Dombrovskis,In our capacity as former members of the... 
by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 30, 2020 | Trade for health | Analysis & Opinion
By Gabriel Siles-Brügge, Associate Professor in Public Policy, University of Warwick, EPHA Scientific Advisor on Trade Policy. The coronavirus crisis has thrown the link between trade, investment and health into sharp relief. The world has experienced an unprecedented... 
by George Thurley | Sep 30, 2020 | Climate Emergency & EU Green Deal, Trade for health | Latest Developments
It has been more than fifteen months since agreement in principle was reached on the controversial EU-Mercosur trade agreement, and yet ratification hasn’t even begun. So what’s going on? Officially the Association Agreement is being ‘scrubbed’ and translated... 
by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 16, 2020 | Sustainable Development Goals, Tobacco, Trade for health | Latest Developments
As part of the global tobacco industry watchdog STOP, whose partners include the University of Bath, the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, The Union, and Vital Strategies, along with Corporate Europe Observatory, the European Public Health Alliance... 
by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 15, 2020 | Trade for health | Latest Developments
The European Public Health Alliance is seriously concerned at how little attention has been paid to health by the European Commission in the consultation on future EU trade policy. The ‘A renewed trade policy for a stronger Europe’ consultation document ... 
by Zoltán Massay-Kosubek | Jul 30, 2019 | Trade for health | Analysis & Opinion
Evidence is no longer enough. While there is a growing body of empirical studies on the association between trade and investment liberalisation and drivers of rising Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) rates, public health simply does not have the money, power or resources...
