Authors Katie Hirono and Deborah Gleeson wrote this piece for the Croakey health blog based on their brief report for the April issue of Public Health Research & Practice discussing the negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. In November 2015 these came to a close with the release of the final text. This included an optional carve-out (exclusion) for tobacco control measures from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’s investor-state dispute settlement mechanism. Despite the apparent ‘win’ for the field of tobacco control, the limited scope of the carve-out provides only partial protection for public health regulatory measures, they said.
- Read the article on Croakey: Never mind the Budget, what is the TPP going to mean for health
Find out more
- Read the paper in Public Health Research & Practice
- Read the media release from the journal’s April issue