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
Latest Developments
Unhealthy Mercosur should not be ratified!
The EU-Mercosur deal is a bad deal for public health. Calls grow to stop the agreement amid growing concerns in Europe and South America.
New report reveals tobacco lobbying of European Commission
A new report, launched today reveals the continued and extensive contacts between the tobacco industry, its allies and pro-vaping groups and industry associations, and eight separate Directorates-General (DGs) of the European Commission (EC); and calls for a more proactive transparency system regarding such contacts, especially following the release of the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan.
How the EU can increase transparency and dialogue when developing international trade
A lack of inclusive transparency reduces the ability to scrutinise policy decisions, and this can ultimately lead to an erosion of trust in the institutions making those decisions – EPHA sets out some ways to improve transparency in the development of EU trade policy
Analysis & Opinion
The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: a net loss for public health
How the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation agreement affects public health.
The EU’s Trade Policy Review passes over public health – even in a pandemic
What does the EU’s new trade policy review mean for public health?
Will post-COVID EU Trade be public health-proof?
What are the top 5 issues to look out for in EU trade policy this year, as it affects public health?
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
Events
Industry tactics in a changing tobacco control policy environment
24 March 2021
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 Scientific Advisors.
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
