GULF COUNTRIES IMPOSE NEW TAXES ON TOBACCO AND SUGARY DRINKS, DOUBLING PRICES TO A HISTORICAL HIGH

By Han-Hsi Indy Liu | Leave a Comment

Hanhsi Indy Liu and Hisham Ali Alsabt are SJD candidates at Georgetown University Law Center. Any questions or comments on this post can be sent to: hl580@georgetown.edu or ha374@georgetown.edu. Arabian Gulf countries, known for their high oil revenues and low tax rates for decades, have recently been suffering from declining oil revenues. To reduce their reliance […]

Posted in Non-Communicable Diseases, Tobacco, Trade ; Tagged: NCDs, obesity, public health law, soda tax, tobacco control.

02.17.17

Carfentanil

By Katie Gottschalk | Leave a Comment

In an international game of Whac-A-Mol, this week China announced that it would be adding four lethal heroin-like narcotics to a list of controlled substances to help combat the growing opioid epidemic in America. The primary target of the ban is Carfentanil, one of the latest and deadliest synthetic opioids to show up in the […]

Posted in FDA, Global Health, Health reform, Trade, uncategorized ;

12.15.15

Why We Need the Framework Convention on Global Health Following the SDGs

By Eric A. Friedman | Leave a Comment

Next month, the WHO Executive Board will meet with a lengthy agenda, representing the range of serious health burdens and threats that persist. One challenge stands above the rest: immense global and national health inequities, linked to some 20 million deaths every year (about which more in an upcoming blog). The Executive Board could take […]

Posted in Global Health, Human Rights, Non-Communicable Diseases, Trade, WHO ; Tagged: accountability, fcgh, Framework Convention on Global Health, global governance for health, health equity, health financing, right to health, SDGs, sustainable development goals, universal health coverage, WHO, WHO Executive Board.

11.05.15

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a win for tobacco control? A first look at the tobacco carve-out

By Katherine Shats | Leave a Comment

Finally, after years of negotiation, speculation, anticipation and/or trepidation, the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been released. Undoubtedly, lawyers around the world will be pouring over the details over the next weeks and months, as will the US congress in order to decide whether to approve or reject the agreement in its […]

Posted in Tobacco, Trade ; Tagged: investment, tobacco, tobacco control, TPP, trade.

10.20.15

Trade liberalization for tobacco products doesn’t make sense: why the O’Neill is petitioning against U.S. tobacco product import subsidies

By Katherine Shats | Leave a Comment

I have previously written about the absurdity of treating tobacco like any other good in the market, specifically the inconsistencies between antitrust law and public health regulation. It’s concerning – and frightening – when economists and free trade advocates forget that, unlike any other commercial good, tobacco products harm and frequently kill those that use […]

Posted in Human Rights, Tobacco, Trade ; Tagged: development, human rights, tobacco, tobacco control, trade.

10.07.15

What does the conclusion of TPP negotiations mean for global health law?

By O’Neill Institute | Leave a Comment

This post was written by Alexandra Phelan, an Adjunct Professor in Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Doctoral Researcher with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. She has previously examined the possible implications of the TPP on global health law based on previous leaked drafts of the TPP here […]

Posted in Trade ; Tagged: global health, Intellectual Porperty, MSF, TPP, trade, WHO.

04.21.15

The Lancet – O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University Commission on Global Health and the Law

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The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University is pleased to announce the launch of the launch of The Lancet – O’Neill Institute, Georgetown University Commission on Global Health and the Law. This commission’s focus is that law should be viewed as a major determinant of health and safety and can […]

Posted in FDA, Global Health, Health reform, Healthcare, Human Rights, Tobacco, Trade, WHO ; Tagged: Ebola, georgetown, globalhealthlaw, Gostin, governance, health, lancet, law, publichealth, WHO.

03.27.15

Trade leaks and litigation funds: how the tobacco industry reels us into more pointless battles

By Katherine Shats | Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, I expressed my frustrations at the endless cycle of the tobacco industry demanding more and more evidence to justify simple tobacco control measures – and governments around the world giving in. Yesterday, parts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s (TPP), a trade agreement currently being negotiated between 12 countries including the US, were […]

Posted in Global Health, Tobacco, Trade ; Tagged: public health, tobacco control, trade.

02.19.15

How many scientists and lawyers does it take to regulate a cigarette package?

By Katherine Shats | Leave a Comment

This week, we have seen yet another example of tobacco industry intimidation tactics being used to stop a government from enacting laws that will save lives and protect the public health. The Irish government announced that it is introducing plain packaging legislation, following through on its goal of becoming the first country in the European […]

Posted in FDA, Global Health, Tobacco, Trade ; Tagged: plain packaging, public health, regulation, tobacco control, trade.

12.18.14

The Public Health Implications of Normalized U.S.-Cuba Relations

By Brian Honermann | Leave a Comment

Many thanks to Sarah Roache, O’Neill Institute Law Fellow, for her invaluable insights into legal interventions to prevent NCDs. In January 1959, after half a decade of armed revolution, Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement took control of Cuba from Fulgencio Batista, a president with increasingly dictatorial tendencies. Relations between the United States and Castro’s […]

Posted in Global Health, Trade, uncategorized ; Tagged: Cuba, food, non-communicable diseases, public health, sanctions.

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