Commercial Determinants of Health: What are they? Why do they matter? What can we do?

The World Health Organization is inviting you to the first webinar of the Commercial Determinants of Health Webinar Series. This introductory webinar will introduce the commercial determinants of health, explain why they matter for public health, and global health equity, and provide an introduction to action, which will then be explored further in the subsequent webinars. 

The webinar will be on 7 December 2021 13:00 – 14:30 CET

Speakers include:

Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage / Healthier Populations, WHO
Monika Kosinska, Head, Economic and Commercial Determinants, WHO
Etienne Krug, Director, Social Determinants, WHO

Nick Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, City University of New York, United States

Anies Baswedan, Governor, Jakarta, Indonesia
James Hospedales, Special Advisor for the Health Caribbean Coalition; Founder and Director of EarthMedic/EarthNurse; past Director, Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)
Alan Donnelly, Executive Chairman Sovereign Sustainability and Development; Patron of the G20 Health and Development Partnership; former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party
Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, USA; member of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All; member of the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs

To register, click here

Contact the WHO Secretariat at cdoh@who.int for further information.

Upcoming Webinars under the same series:

• Commercial Determinants of Health: measuring what matters to inform action
  15 February 2022
• Commercial Determinants of Health: data, digital spaces and misinformation
  30 March 2022
• Commercial Determinants of Health: Sustainable development, pandemic recovery and realizing the Right to Health
  3 May 2022
• Policy, accountability and trust: governing the Commercial Determinants of Health
  14 June 2022
• Partnership, equity, community: civil society leadership for the Commercial Determinants of Health
  6 September 2022
• Partnership, accountability, change: private sector accountability for the Commercial Determinants of Health
  11 October 2022
• Power, participation and politics: acting on the Commercial Determinants of Health
  13 December 2022