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Commerce, Economy, Trade and Public Health: Global perspectives

Edited by:

Anne Marie Thow, MPubPol, PhD, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Deborah Gleeson, GradDipHealthProm, MPH, PhD, Department of Public Health, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia
Cassandra De Lacy-Vawdon, BHSc (Hons), Department of Public Health, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia

Submission Status: Invitation Only   |   Submission Deadline: 5 August 2025 
 

Globalization and Health invites participating authors to submit to our Collection on Commerce, Economy, Trade and Public Health: Global perspectives.

Manuscripts submitted for consideration must have been presented at the 2024 Conference on Commerce, Economy Trade and Public Health, co-hosted by the Public Health Association of Australia and VicHealth. 

Please note that this Collection does not accept submissions from uninvited authors.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Anne Marie Thow, MPubPol, PhD, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia

Anne Marie Thow is Professor in Public Policy and Health at the University of Sydney. Her research uses theories of public policy making to explore facilitators and barriers to best practice public health nutrition policy, with a particular focus on food systems and the interface between economic policy and nutrition. Anne Marie currently collaborates on research in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Pacific. She also provides advice to governments and relevant United Nations organizations on issues of food systems and nutrition policy making. Prior to her PhD, Anne Marie worked for the Governments of Australia and Fiji on nutrition policy issues. She trained in nutrition and has a Masters in Public Policy and Economics.

Deborah Gleeson, GradDipHealthProm, MPH, PhD, Department of Public Health, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia

Deborah Gleeson is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University where she leads the discipline of Health Practice and Management and teaches postgraduate subjects in health policy and health law. She holds a Master of Public Health and a PhD in Health Policy. Deborah's research focuses on public health policy, particularly at national and international levels and the interface between these levels. Her primary interest area is the implications of international trade agreements for public health, pharmaceutical policy and access to medicines.

Cassandra De Lacy-Vawdon, BHSc (Hons), Department of Public Health, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia

Cassandra de Lacy-Vawdon is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University where she is a member of the discipline of Health Practice and Management team and teaches postgraduate and undergraduate subjects in health care systems and health policy. Currently finalising her PhD and holding a Bachelor of Public Health (Honours), Cassandra's research focuses on the commercial determinants of health, and issues of public health policy import at national and international levels. Her current work sits within a public health framework and examines the commercial determinants of health in relation to the Australian food, alcohol and gambling industries. She also has interests in harm minimisation, prevention, equity in health, and policy and politics.

About the Collection

This Collection in Globalization and Health addresses the interface between commerce, economy, trade and public health, with reference to globalization.

Manuscripts submitted for consideration must have been presented at the 2024 Conference on Commerce, Economy Trade and Public Health, co-hosted by the Public Health Association of Australia and VicHealth. This Collection welcomes submission of review, research, debate, and commentary articles.

Commerce, economy and trade directly touch on many aspects of public health and its regulation, as well as structuring the broader socioeconomic and political conditions that shape human health and health equity. Critical points of interface include access to medicines, prevention of non-communicable diseases, political and commercial determinants of health, health security, public procurement, and pandemic preparedness. In the global economy, many of these dynamics also touch on important dimensions of globalization and health. Understanding the diverse impacts and global considerations of commerce, economy and trade on health will be essential to equitably protect and promote health through improved policy coherence. Addressing these issues will be critical to achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals related to health, commerce, environment; most notably Sustainable Development Goal 3 on Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

There are a limited number of waivers for Article Processing Charges available, and we invite authors without funding for open access publication to include in their cover letter a case for waiver.

  2. The commercial determinants of health is a rapidly expanding field of research; however Indigenous perspectives remain notably underrepresented. For Indigenous peoples the intersection of globalisation, coloni...

    Authors: Alessandro Connor Crocetti, Troy Walker, Fiona Mitchell, Simone Sherriff, Karen Hill, Yin Paradies, Kathryn Backholer and Jennifer Browne
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2024 20:33
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes participant authors to submit reviews, research, debates, and commentary articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Commerce, Economy, Trade and Public Health: Global perspectives" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.