Concerns regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have raised awareness about the negative public health impacts of trade and investment agreements. In the past decade, we have learned much about the implications of trade agreements for public health: reduced equity in access to health services; increased flows of unhealthy commodities; limits on access to medicines; and constrained policy...

Discusses how the COVID-19 health pandemic worldwide was complicated by not only and medical concerns, but inclusion of politics, conspiracy theories, social media.