The shared challenges posed by the production and distribution of health-harming products
have led to growing recognition of the need for policy learning and transfer across problems …

Background Regional trade agreements are major international policy instruments that
shape macro-economic and political systems. There is widespread debate as to whether …

Transnational tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food corporations use the international
trade regime to prevent policy action on non-communicable diseases (NCDs); ie to promote …

Background The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in
approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has …

Background It has long been contested that trade rules and agreements are used to dispute
regulations aimed at preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Yet most analyses of …

The United Nations General Assembly adopted “2030 agenda” for Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) with the objective of “transforming our world.” Provision of …

Background: Achieving healthy food systems will require regulation across the supply chain;
however, binding international economic agreements may be constraining policy space for …

BACKGROUND: Critics of free trade agreements have argued that they threaten public
health, as they eliminate barriers to trade in potentially harmful products, such as sugar …

The major threat to human societies posed by undernutrition has been recognised for
millennia. Despite substantial economic development and scientific innovation, however …

Do international trade rules and agreements constrain health policy space? A multitude of
global actors and institutions with different interests and power can shape national health …