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
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
Environmental, consumer and health NGOs call for the renewal of the Free Trade Agreement Expert Group
Environmental, health and consumer NGOs, including EPHA have called on new European Commission Executive Vice-President for Trade to renew the Free Trade Agreement Expert Group
EU-Mercosur: deforestation’s toll on public health
Why are so many EU Member States having second thoughts about the proposed EU-Mercosur trade deal? With serious concerns about deforestation, what are the implications for public health?
Analysis & Opinion
Trade for Health: strengthened enforcement could be a double-edged sword for public health
What could the EU’s new commitment to trade enforcement mean for public health?
COVID-19, trade and investment and public health
COVID19 has highlighted the links between trade, investment and public health. Health policy advocates have an important role in reminding trade and investment policymakers of the links between trade policy and the indirect determinants of health
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?
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
Past Events
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