Overview: Policy Analysis and Alternatives

The CPATH Globalization & Health Resource Center serves as a central resource on the relationships between economic globalization and public health, for health care leaders, professionals, activists, policy makers, and the general public. The Resource Center presents a range of views from CPATH as well as many other organizations, on topics including:

1. The relationships between economic globalization, international trade agreements and economic policy, and public health.

2. The decisions and actions of major groups participating in policy debates concerning globalization, health care, and public health, including government agencies, multinational banking and trade organizations, and advocacy groups.

3. Recommendations for policy changes that link globalization, health care, and public health.

Key Issues presents analysis by CPATH and others on critical themes:

  Policy Analysis and Alternatives: Trade & Health

  Democracy and Global Governance
  1. Public Health Representation in Trade Policy

  2. Investor Rights: issues, trade dispute cases

Key Trade Agreements presents:

- Health Services

- Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines

- Public Health Protections

- Water

Key Trade Agreements presents:

- Analysis by CPATH and others on key global trade agreements.
- Links to the full text of certain agreements, and official government documents.

Related Resources offers information on other organizations and publications that work on global trade and /or on health.