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Project Meeting on Strengthening Policy for Healthy and Sustainable Diets: learning from innovation in practice
Seminar on Health in Trade and Investment Agreements
Zoom connections
Topic: 14 June – Health in Trade and Investment Agreements
Time: Jun 14, 2024 09:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
https://who.zoom.us/j/91998856079
Meeting ID: 919 9885 6079
Passcode: HIA_2024
Hybrid meeting
14 June 2024
09:00 - 15:00 pm CEST
10 May 2024
Original: English
Provisional programme
08:45–09:00
Participants registration / log-on
PART ONE: Strengthening Policy for Healthy and Sustainable Diets: learning from innovation in practice
09:00 –09:15
Welcome, opening remarks and introductions
Kremlin Wickramasinghe
Regional Advisor (Nutrition), Special Initiative on NCDs and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Anne Marie Thow
Professor of Public Policy and Health, University of Sydney
• Overall structure and purpose of meeting
• Participant introductions
09:15–09:30
09:30-10:40
Overview of the first round of research case studies planned (University of Sydney)
Anne Marie Thow, Professor of Public Policy and Health, University of Sydney
Update on the current status of key policy areas in the Region
TBC
• Public procurement
• Digital marketing
• Food systems governance
10.45-11.00
Coffee break and networking
11:00–12:20
Discussion
Moderator: Holly Rippin, Consultant, Special Initiative on NCDs and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
• Policy areas and any others arising to support healthy and sustainable food systems
• Priority countries and additional research case study areas
• Next steps and plan Melbourne meeting
12:20–12:30
12:30-13:00
Final remarks
Lunch and networking
PART TWO: Health in Trade and Investment Agreements
13:00-13:10
13:10-14:00
14:00-14:15
14:15-15:00
Introduction and opening remarks
Kremlin Wickramasinghe
Regional Advisor (Nutrition), Special Initiative on NCDs and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Gauden Galea
Strategic Adviser to the Regional Director, Special Initiative on NCDs and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Introduction to trade and investment agreements and health and presenting findings from the Health-IIA research project
Anne Marie Thow
Professor of Public Policy and Health, University of Sydney
• Introduction to Trade and Investment Agreements, how they may impact public health policy making and health determinants.
• Health safeguards in International Investment Agreements.
• Sustainable Food System inclusions in TIA: the EU-New Zealand FTA, EU-Chile FTA, and the Singapore-Australia Green Economy Agreement.
• Policy learning from recent ISDS cases on protecting policy space for environmental and health regulations.
Healthy break and end of seminar
Discussion and feedback: internal
Moderator: Holly Rippin, Consultant, Special Initiative on NCDs and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
• Health-IIA research project findings.
• Opportunities for Sustainable Food Systems in TIAs.
• Opportunities for adopting health (and environmental) safeguards in TIAs – dissemination, next steps and raising awareness.
15:00
Final remarks and close
Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Regional Advisor (Nutrition), Special Initiative on NCDs and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe
Anne Marie Thow
Professor of Public Policy and Health, University of Sydney