EURACTIV: The E.U. is no progressive free trader: It’s exporting chronic diseases to Latin America George Thurley, policy officer on Healthy Trade at European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) “…[T]rade deals bring trade-offs, and the E.U. has apparently chosen to put the trade goals of European tobacco companies ahead of their…

WHO: Seventy-First World Health Assembly update, 23 May This post provides an update on topics addressed at the 71st World Health Assembly, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak; a report from the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme; health conditions in the…

POLITICO: Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda on drug pricing could backfire around the world “President Donald Trump wants Americans to get lower prices for medicines — and the rest of the world may pay for it. His ‘America First’ message on drugs at home, coupled with pro-pharmaceutical industry policies abroad, could…

Intellectual Property Watch: Civil Society Key In TRIPS Flexibility Implementation “When the agreement on intellectual property was adopted by the World Trade Organization, a number of flexibilities were included in the text, mainly to give developing countries policy space to implement the agreement with development considerations. However, some countries through…

Center for Global Development’s “Global Health Policy Blog”: The State of Global Health Commodity Procurement: Moving from Data Points to the Bigger Picture Kalipso Chalkidou, director of global health policy and senior fellow at CGD; Janeen Madan Keller, senior policy analyst at CGD; and Daniel Rosen, senior associate and Freeman…

Devex: Q&A: Improving public services in Africa (Jerving, 5/1). Global Health NOW: Not the Starbucks of Global Health: Vital Strategies Builds From Within (Simpson, 4/30). Intellectual Property Watch: Geneva Developed Country Attachés For IP And Health To Meet (4/30). Reuters: Heavy rains, landslides kill at least 100 in Kenya: Red…

Innovation Technology & Innovation Foundation: Innovate4Health: How Innovators Are Solving Global Health Challenges In this report, Stephen Ezell, vice president for global innovation policy at ITIF; Mark Schultz, director of academic programs and senior scholar at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP); and David Lund, the John…

STAT: More GOP lawmakers urge U.S. trade officials to lean on Colombia over drug approvals “Still more Republican lawmakers are urging the U.S. trade representative to require Colombia to change its laws governing drug approvals before supporting the country’s membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an intergovernmental…

Center for Global Health Research: Health, Taxes, and Poverty in 500 Million Male Smokers This press release discusses findings from a recent study published in BMJ examining the effects of higher cigarette prices on global health and development, noting, “Higher cigarette prices would save millions of people from extreme poverty…

Reuters: Philippines’ Duterte now targets fake drugs “Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has opened a new front in his war on drugs, targeting fake over-the-counter medicines to try to stem the spread of counterfeit paracetamol, his lawyer said on Wednesday…” (Mogato, 3/28).