Trade and Health Forum Activities at the Denver Annual Meeting

Environment Section members are invited to attend the activities of the Trade and Health Forum this year in Denver.   The Forum was established in 2005 to bring together members from various sections who were concerned about the effect that trade and trade policy have on public health.

Trade and trade policy have broad ramifications for environmental health, including pollution and chemical exposures due to the expansion and restructuring of agricultural and industrial production, water privatization and distribution, trade in dangerous products or waste, and limitations on governments’ ability  to set protective regulations as a condition of many bilateral and multi-lateral trade agreements. 

Join us to learn about these issues and more in Denver:

·         Business Meeting, Sunday, Nov. 7, at 2:30 p.m.;

·         Our full program can be viewed at: http://apha.confex.com/apha/138am/webprogram/WGTH.html

·         Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 10:30 a.m., the Forum will be putting on one of nine conference “Special Sessions.”  Five speakers, including one from the Environment Section, will present on “Trading Health? Envisioning Health Justice in a Globalized Economy” (Session 5093.0)