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Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD, Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH), 98 Seal Rock Drive, San Francisco, CA 94121-1437, 415-933-6204, ershaffer@cpath.org, Joseph E. Brenner, MA, Center for Policy Analysis, 98 Seal Rock Drive, San Francisco, CA 94121, and Meredith Fort, MPH, Health Alliance International, 1215 3rd Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109.
What do trade agreements, bank policies, and corporate profits have to do with health? This presentation will provide an overview of how current corporate-friendly policies and trade regimes are a threat to people's health using the examples of: -the effect of trade agreements on access to essential medicines; -change in the role of the State and the privatization of services; -the impact of agricultural trade agreements on poverty, food security, and nutrition. Meredith Fort then will describe the efforts of the People's Health Movement in the US and Internationally, as part of a growing global grassroots campaign, to advocate for the primacy of public health over profit-driven policies, and to challenge the domination of corporate-friendly trade agreements.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I have a significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
Relationship: I am a director of CPATH, which conducts policy analysis on trade agreements and public health