<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Legge</b> <span dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au">D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au</a></span><br>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Trade and Health in the Pacific</span></font></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">PACER Plus - Should we be worried?</span></font></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Public Forum</span></font></b><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">12-13 April 2010</span></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">City Campus, La Trobe University</span></b><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Melbourne</span></b><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Will PACER Plus damage population health in the Pacific? Some commentators fear that it may. See <a href="http://phmoz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Trade_and_Health_in_the_Pacific" target="_blank">http://phmoz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Trade_and_Health_in_the_Pacific</a> for background.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This forum will bring together researchers, activists and health professionals from Australia and the Pacific to consider a range of health issues at stake in the current renegotiation of the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) as PACER Plus.</span></font></p>
<p> issues include:</p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font size="3" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span>ˇ<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font>Nutrition and health in the Pacific</p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font size="3" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span>ˇ<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font>Implications of foreign investment in health care</p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font size="3" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span>ˇ<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font>Labour mobility and 'brain drain'</p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font size="3" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span>ˇ<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font>Economic development and health</p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><font size="3" face="Symbol"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span>ˇ<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></span></font>Gender inequality</p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Health practitioners, researchers, academics and activists, along with others with an interest in the impacts of trade agreements in the Pacific are invited to attend.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This forum is a shared initiative of the People's Health Movement Australia (PHM Oz), the La Trobe Institute for Human Security and the Public Health Association of Australia.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">There is no charge for this event.</span></font></p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Registration</span></font></b></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">To register, please complete the registration form available from the PHM Oz website (<a href="http://phmoz.org/" target="_blank">http://phmoz.org/</a>) and send it to Cassandra Fletcher (<a href="mailto:C.fletcher@latrobe.edu.au" target="_blank">C.fletcher@latrobe.edu.au</a>) or Deborah Gleeson (<a href="mailto:d.gleeson@latrobe.edu" target="_blank">d.gleeson@latrobe.edu</a>) by 1<sup>st</sup> April 2010. Registration forms may also be mailed to Deborah Gleeson, School of Public Health, Health Sciences 2, La Trobe University Bundoora VIC 3086 AUSTRALIA</span></font></p>
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