[Ip-health] Globalization and Health Sessions at 2007 Am. Pub. Health Assoc. Conference

[Mike Palmedo]

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GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH SESSIONS
American Public Health Association
135th APHA Conference
Washington, DC Nov. 3-7, 2007
(Convention Center)

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2007


3303.0 Trade Policy Analysis and Health Mon. 2:30-4:00pm Renaissance
Meeting Room 8/9
- Presider: Mary Anne Mercer
- Trade agreements threaten states' rights to control drug costs.
Michael Palmedo
- Illegitimacy: Domestic public health policy making- US-Australia FTA.
Kevin Outterson
- Universities & Essential Medicines. Lauren Smith
- Health and corporate rights: Paradox or paradigm? Julie Solomon
Sponsor: Trade & Health Forum

3332.0: Monday, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
The Politics between Industry and Public Policy: How Industry Impacts
Public Health
- Commercial infant foods and lactation devices: Marketing, misuse, and
mortality. Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, FACPM
- Assessment of global pharmaceutical and medical product donations =96 do
they help or hinder public health's capacity to provide access to drugs?
Michele Forzley, JD, MPH
- Efficacy and Prestige of food fortification can be damaged by abuse
and exaggeration. Omar Dary, PhD
- Market distortions and failures for public health: the other drug war
Maggie Huff-Rousselle, MA, MBA, PhD
Sponsor: Intl. Health Co-Sponsor: Trade & Health Forum



TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2006



4010.0 Trade Policy, Tobacco and Medicines Tues. 8:30-10am Renaissance
Ballroom East
- Presider: Donald Zeigler
- Bilateral Latin American free trade agreements and access to
medicines: An analysis of the process. Bernardo Useche
- A human rights approach to law and decision-making on trade and access
to essential medicines: A critical perspective. Clancy J. Kelly
- Tobacco co.s use Malawi to lobby against global tobacco control. Marty
Otanez
- "Calling Phil-ip Morrr-rriss!": Nurses bearing witness to corporate
greed. Sharon P. Brown
Sponsor: Trade & Health Forum

4242.0 Congress: Hot-Button Issues =96 P. Ellen Parsons Session Tues. 2:30
=96 4 pm Washington Cenvention Center 158A
- Presider: Ellen R. Shaffer
- Trade and health: Ways and Means perspective Jason Kearns, JD MPP
- Reproductive rights: Rep. Jerrold Nadler's views Carole Angel, JD
- War in the Middle East: Perspective of Rep. Barbara Lee Ven Neralla
- Universal Health Care: Rep. Conyers and the Leadership Council U.S.
Rep. John Conyers
Sponsor: Medical Care Co-Sponsors: Trade & Health Forum, Spirit of 1848,
Socialist Caucus, Women=92s Caucus (over)

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2006

5095.1 Public Health and Trade Policy Weds. 12:30-2:00pm Renaissance
Ballroom East
- Presider: Karen Valenzuela
- Protecting Occupational Health in Trade Agreements -- NAFTA's Failure
and Future Needs Garrett D. Brown, MPH, CIH
- Controlling toxic trade: Policy, politics, pitfalls and potentials
Susanna Rankin Bohme, MA
- Corporate strategies to influence trade & health policies Bill Wiist,
DHSc, MPH
- CAFTA=92s impact on access to medicines for women and families in
Guatemala. Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD MPH
- Advocating a public health voice in U.S. trade policy: Progress in
2007 Joseph Brenner, MA
Sponsor: Trade & Health Forum

Trade & Health Poster Session

5003.0 Public Health Perspectives on Trade & Health. Weds. 8:30-9:30am
Exhibit Hall D/E
- Easing resource constraints for public health:Realizing the right to
health through the right to development. Ashley Fox, MA
- Countering the World Bank Report, Curbing the Epidemic to obstruct the
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Hadii Mamudu, PhD
- Corporate social responsibility in agriculture: Can it work in Sonora,
Mexico?
- Ashley B. Wennerstrom, MPH
- Obesity, food supply and trade policy in Santiago, Chile. Sarah A.
Wolf, MPH, RD
- "Poverty reduction" A Trojan Horse of Globalization. Biruck Tulu, RN,
BSN, OCN
- Making the public's need for HPV Vaccine: Influences of global
pharmaceutical companies on cervical cancer prevention policies in
Taiwan. Chia-Yin Lin
- Health tourism: A framework for sustainable development. Victoria EH
Lee, MD
- Health and social costs of cheap DVDs, sneakers, and plasma TVs: A
public health and environmental justice perspective. Joel Ervice
- A problem of epidemic proportions? The unanticipated consequences of
infectious disease outbreak on international trade. Sheikh Shahnawaz, PhD
Sponsor: Trade & Health Forum

Also of Interest:

3082.0: Monday, 10:30-11:30 Board 8
Increasing access to second-line HIV/AIDS medications: Brazil and Thailand
Tanyaporn Wansom, BA

3419.0: Monday, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
International Public Health and the Labor Movement: Labor's Response to
Global Health Issues, Trade Initiatives, Globalization and Workers' Health
Dianne Tamuk, Ellie Larson

3436.0: Monday, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
APHA International Health Film Festival: Session IV: Trade and Patenting
- Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Certification =96 timber & coffee
- Kill or Cure. India=92s pharmaceutical industry

4259.0: Tuesday, 3:30 PM
Can citizens' rights to health trump corporations' rights? A case study
of NAFTA's chapter 11
Robert Chernomas

4223.0: Tuesday, 2:30 PM
Agricultural policy and subsidy distribution: Nutrition and public
health implications
Hope Ferdowsian, MD, MPH


5006.0: Wednesday, 8:30-9:30 - Board 2
Using scientific research findings to inform public policy
decisionmaking on health impacts of global trade and ports Alena J.
Groopman, MHS

5090.0: Wednesday - 10:30 AM
Understanding the contributions of farm and food policy to childhood
obesity and non-infectious diseases: A systems approach
David Wallinga, MD, MPA

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Mike Palmedo
Research Coordinator
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University, Washington College of Law
4910 Massachutsetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016
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mpalmedo@wcl.american.edu