Title: Meeting On Trade and Health: Come By to Discuss the Global Economy and Public Health
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Section/SPIG: Medical Care
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The APHA Working Group on Trade and Health will sponsor a business meeting on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., in the Philadelphia Convention Center, Room 112B. Please join us to discuss:
- APHA’s policies on global trade and public health, present and future;
- How the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and pending agreements with the Andean nations, Thailand and Southern Africa, will affect access to affordable medicines in the United States and abroad;
- What the trade agenda means for the public health infrastructure and health services; and
- Successes in winning democratic public health representation in trade negotiations.
Please join other members to discuss these important issues and our plans for 2006. In addition to Medical Care, sponsoring sections include Occupational Health and Safety, Environment, Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs, and International Health, as well as affiliates from Florida and Northern and Southern California.
The second Working Group activity will be on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005, 4:30 - 6 p.m. in room #101A of the convention center. This is a multi-section panel on the impact of trade on public health issues. Garrett Brown will be representing the OHS Section; join speakers from the Medical Care, Environment, and Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs sections.
Any Section member interested in becoming active in the Working Group is heartily encouraged to do so. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Ellen Shaffer at <ershaffer@cpath.org> for further details.