PAHO/WHO
Areas of Sustainable Development and Environmental Health (SDE) and Health Surveillance Disease Prevention and Control (HSD)
Invites you to the Seminar on: Trade and Public Health
Keynote Speaker: Benn McGrady
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Eastern Standard Time (
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The Problem:
· Trade treaties can affect public health in negative and positive ways depending on how it affects the availability of different products or how they affect labor markets among other factors. A clear case is the increase of chronic non communicable diseases (NCD) due to the higher availability of potentially harmful products, like tobacco, unhealthy food and alcohol. NCD are today the first cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and tobacco is the main risk factor related to them.
· The most effective interventions in tobacco control, included in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) contain regulations that will have an effect in trade and businesses and the WHO FCTC is also a legally binding international treaty. Many of the interventions applied to tobacco control will be useful in other areas, like alcohol and junk food regulation, therefore this is a challenge that will grow in the near future.
Challenges: There is a need for an integrated approach from countries recognizing the prevalence of public health over commercial or trade interests.
NCD a public health problem is a priority for WHO/PAHO and also for the entire UN system, that focused its last high level meeting on this subject.
Expected outcomes:
· Increased awareness of the importance of the relationship between trade and public health.
· Country level discussion regarding the prevalence of public health over commercial interests.
To participate in person:
Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO
To participate online:
To login to the Elluminate session, use the links below and type your name on the sign in page:
ENGLISH: www.paho.org/virtual/SDETobaccoControl
SPANISH: www.paho.org/virtual/SDEControlTabaco
To login type your name on the sign in page
AGENDA
2:00 - 2:15 Introductory remarks:
Dr. Augusto Galvão,Manager, SDE/PAHO
Dr. Marcos Espinal, Manager, HSD/PAHO
2: 15– 2:30 Why International Instruments in Public Health, – WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Dr. Armando Peruga, WHO/TFI Program Manager
2:30 – 3:20 How Trade Policy affects Public Health:
The Example of Tobacco, Alcohol and Diet and the Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases
Legal debates at WTO: Objections to
Dr. Benn McGrady, Director of the O’Neill Institute Initiative on Trade, Investment and Health
3:20 – 4:00 Panel:
Dr. Benn McGrady, Director of the O’Neill Institute Initiative on Trade, Investment and Health
Dr. Armando Peruga, WHO/TFI Program Manager
Moderators:
Dr. James Hospedales, Senior Advisor, Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases, HSD/NC
Dr. Adriana Blanco, Regional Advisor, Tobacco Control, SDE/MH
About Benn McGrady
Benn McGrady is the Director of the O’Neill Institute Initiative on Trade, Investment and Health and an Adjunct Professor at the
Dr.McGrady is the author of Trade and Public Health: The WTO, Tobacco, Alcohol and Diet (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Contact Information
Dr Adriana Blanco, Regional Advisor, Tobacco Control, SDE/MH at: blancoad@paho.org
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