The impact of trade on people’s health
December 7, 2019 – 4:00-4:50pm – Town Hall Seattle
4:00 – 4:15
Trade, health, and human rights
4:15 – 4:30
A vision for healthy trade
4:30 – 4:50
Action for people-centered trade to protect health and human rights
Session Presentation
Session Activities
A Vision for Healthy Trade
A preview of what we’d like to see in future trade agreements.
What’s your vision for healthy trade?
Participants shared their ideas on how trade agreements should be developed and what they should include to create this word cloud.
Action for healthy trade: What do I say to my representative?
Participants put together key points to stress to their representatives what they should stand up for to achieve trade that works for everyone.
Make the call, contact your members of Congress!
To share this document or make changes to it directly, download it here.
Resources
Get involved:
American Public Health Association Trade and Health Forum
Citizens Trade Campaign
Justice is Global
MSF Access Campaign
Public Citizen
Read more:
Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity
Trade and Health series from the Lancet (2009)
USMCA (NAFTA 2.0): tightening the constraints on the right to regulate for public health
The Potential Public Health Impacts of the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement
Contact
Julia Robinson – juliarob@uw.edu
Leigh Haynes – leigh.kamore@gmail.com
