Trade for health
Trade for Health, not health for trade! EPHA’s campaign on EU international trade policy aims to protect and promote public health, to ensure policy coherence between trade and public health and to guarantee policy and regulatory space for governments and the EU.
Brexit
CETA
MERCOSUR
TTIP
Publications
EU model chapter shows how to ensure trade-public health coherence
Protecting public health in EU and post-Brexit trade agreements
Unhealthy Trades: the side-effects of the European Union’s Latin American trade agreements
Latest Developments
European Court of Justice backs legality of CETA’s Investment Court System
First thoughts on what the European Court of Justice ruling on the EU’s Investment Court system means for trade campaigners
read moreEPHA submission on EU-US regulatory cooperation activities
EPHA highlights public health concerns around medicines and medical devices, digital health and antimicrobial resistance in its submission on potential areas for regulatory cooperation
read moreEuropean Commission prioritises tobacco, sacrifices global health in unhealthy trade negotiations with Latin America
EPHA and Latin American and global partners write to EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and First Vice-President Frans Timmermans to put health ahead of the interests of the tobacco industry in the EU’s Mercosur trade negotiations
read moreAnalysis & Opinion
Thinking outside the box: Where next for public health advocacy on trade?
Evidence is no longer enough. What are the institutional barriers, ideological challenges and vested interests preventing policy coherence between trade and health?
read moreThe EU-Mercosur agreement means serious potential impacts for health
Is the true motivation for the deal to score a victory for the existing trade system against the protectionism of the current US administration?
read moreTobacco and Trade: an unhealthy and harmful marriage
On World Tobacco Day, EPHA explores the connections between the tobacco industry and trade, and the effects on public health.
read morePast Events
Brexit, trade and health
22 March 2017
What are the potential implications of Brexit on trade and investment from the perspective of health?
Do you have a question?
Meet our Trade for Health Policy Lead and Scientific Advisors.
Zoltán Massay-Kosubek
Policy Manager for Health Policy Coherence
zoltan@epha.org
+32 2 233 3872
Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge
EPHA Scientific Advisor on Trade Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
Dr Nicolette Butler
EPHA Scientific Advisor on Trade Policy
Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester