As trade and investment agreements increasingly focus on “non-tariff barriers” their potential impacts on public health increase. Trade agreements can affect many issues including their impact on antimicrobial resistance which is often overlooked. Unhealthy Trade?...
Medicines and medical devices, antimicrobial resistance and digital health in EU-U.S. regulatory cooperation activities Following the agreement on July 2018 between European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump to launch a new phase...
Trade, investment and public health An EPHA guide and risk assessment tool This document is intended for public health professionals, as an introduction to trade and investment policy and its relevance to public health. It also offers a tool for public health...
Everyone seems to be talking about trade. Normally a niche issue relegated to newspapers’ financial pages, it has been catapulted back to the top of the political agenda by a combination of President Trump’s zero-sum trade war, supposedly targeting China, but also...
Brussels, 17 May 2018 The European Public Health Alliance, along with Latin American and global partners, has written today to the EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and First Vice-President Frans Timmermans to put health ahead of the interests of the tobacco...