Trade
The links between trade and health extend back to the earliest human settlements, but globalization has brought these spheres together as never before. This section examines the issues that have led to an even closer intersection between trade and health, asks how they impact the poor, and explores the tensions that arise between the goals of protecting and promoting health and generating wealth through trade.
Trade
1 Percent
India is spending only one percent of its GDP on health
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1,961
A December 2021 search of ClinicalTrials.gov found 1,961 studies involving mRNA technology
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94 Percent
By December 2021, 94 percent of people in LMICs had not yet received a first dose of COVID vaccine
Billions Committed, Millions Delivered
48%
Developing country share of global trade, 2014
Developing country share of global trade, 2014
301
Preferential trade agreements in 2019
Preferential trade agreements in 2019
1995
Founding of World Trade Organization (WTO)
Founding of World Trade Organization (WTO)
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What the COVID-19 pandemic taught us about the relationship between trade and health
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The Global COVID-19 Contract Conundrum
The critical role of contracts in determining access to COVID-19 vaccines
How Russia's Invasion Shot Down Sputnik V
Russia's decision to invade Ukraine hinders the use and distribution of its vaccine worldwide
Spotify's COVID-19 Controversy
How artists Neil Young and Joni Mitchell took a stand against COVID-19 disinformation
mRNA Therapeutics: The Technology That Saved the World
COVID-19 vaccines catapulted mRNA technology into the spotlight, and now it's used to cure previously untreated diseases
Why U.S. Vaccine Nationalism Hurts India
Stockpiling COVID-19 jabs cannot be more important than saving human lives
To Decolonize Global Health, We Must Examine the Global Political Economy
We cannot talk about decolonizing without discussing colonialism's most fundamental legacy in global health
Trade in the Time of Pandemics
With borders closed and global travel constrained, trade will help us find a way out of the pandemic
Britain's Moral Bankruptcy Over COVID-19 Vaccines
Why a study set to deliberately infect people with coronavirus is unethical, unnecessary, and likely to be uninformative
Back to Basics After COVID-19
Investing in Primary Care Now Will Prepare the U.S. for the Next Pandemic
Vaccine Nationalism and Africa
African Union calls for a “People's Vaccine” as African Academy of Sciences begins mapping local clinical trials sites
A New Way to Drive COVID-19 Vaccine Development
How a "benefit-based advance market commitment" could build on existing Gavi COVAX and EU Joint Procurement initiatives
Patent Pools and the Pandemic—A Renewed Debate
In light of COVID-19 we need to revisit patent pools and their potential for pro-competitive and anticompetitive effects