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

Abstract Background In late 2018 the United States, Canada, and Mexico signed a new
trade agreement (most commonly referred to by its US-centric acronym, the United States …

Trade agreements influence the distribution of money, goods, services and daily living
conditions–the social determinants of health and health equity, which ultimately impacts …

Background: Negotiations surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade and
investment agreement have recently concluded. Although trade and investment agreements …

Objective: To explore the formal and informal ways in which different actors involved in
shaping trade agreements pursue their interests and understand the interactions with …

How health advocates and industry actors attempt to assert their authority as a strategy of
influence in policymaking remains underexplored in the health governance literature …

There has been a significant growth in health impact assessment (HIA)-related publications
within peer-reviewed literature. These papers rely on authors' accurate reporting of work as' …

Background Despite accumulating evidence of the implications of trade policy for public
health, trade and health sectors continue to operate largely in silos. Numerous barriers to …

Background Regulation of food environments is needed to address the global challenge of
poor nutrition, yet policy inertia has been a problem. A common argument against regulation …

Trade has long been an axiomatic characteristic of globalization, although international
rules governing trade are of more recent vintage. Notably in the post-World War II period, an …