While much is known about the barriers that prevent policy and governance for public health, less is known about the strategies and conditions that can enable effective public health advocacy. In this presentation Belinda Townsend presents findings from two large scale narrative reviews of advocacy strategies in the commercial determinants of health.

Belinda presents a review of 65 relevant studies that identifies 6 strategies and 4 conditions that have enabled the elevation of public health issues in domestic, regional, bilateral and global trade policymaking.

The second review applies a political science typology to 144 studies of NGO tactics in the extractive, tobacco, food, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, weapons, and asbestos domains. The analysis identify 18 different inside and outside strategies applied by NGOs to attempt to influence commercial, government and intergovernmental organisations.

This event will be delivered online via Zoom only.

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