Luciana C Borges
Pesquisadora com concentração na produção de informação e conhecimento voltados para o apoio da tomada de decisão no planejamento, implementação, administração e avaliação de sistemas, programas, serviços, intervenções e ações de saúde pública.
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As I explore the cross-section of international relations, political science, and public health, my research focuses on learning and helping others to understand the political, legal, and commercial determinants of health - the impact of governance and trade on health policy implementation.
My publications address questions related to the intersectoral linkages between tobacco control regulations, the world trade system, and IP rights. Mainly, I try to understand why Latin American countries choose the tobacco control policies that they do and who are the main stakeholders behind the decision-making process.
Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor in International Relations; M.Sc. in Political Science; M.Sc. in Global Health and Development; Ongoing Ph.D. in Public Health.
Chevening Alumna.
Fulbright Grantee.
Supervisors: Dr. Henrique Zeferino de Menezes and Dr. Eric Crosbie
Address: João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
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As I explore the cross-section of international relations, political science, and public health, my research focuses on learning and helping others to understand the political, legal, and commercial determinants of health - the impact of governance and trade on health policy implementation.
My publications address questions related to the intersectoral linkages between tobacco control regulations, the world trade system, and IP rights. Mainly, I try to understand why Latin American countries choose the tobacco control policies that they do and who are the main stakeholders behind the decision-making process.
Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor in International Relations; M.Sc. in Political Science; M.Sc. in Global Health and Development; Ongoing Ph.D. in Public Health.
Chevening Alumna.
Fulbright Grantee.
Supervisors: Dr. Henrique Zeferino de Menezes and Dr. Eric Crosbie
Address: João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
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Purpose: Shed light on Alternative Model BITs, arguing that the absence of the investor-State clause protects Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) from investors’ international interference on national health policymaking.
Methods: literature review was carried out through a systematic search strategy aimed at compiling and appraising key issue areas related to countries’ policy space for achieving SDG 3.a. A qualitative analysis, comparing the US 2012 Standard Model BIT with the Alternative Brazilian Model BIT and Indian Model BIT, was also conducted. Then, an inductive perspective was applied.
Results: The Alternative Brazilian Model BIT - Agreement on Cooperation and Facilitation of Investments (ACFIs), the only Alternative Model BIT with no investor-State arbitration, is poorly discussed by the literature. No research framed the dissemination of an Alternative Model BIT in the grounds of SDG 17 concepts and principles, neither contextualised it in terms of implementing Plain Packaging measures.
Conclusions: The proposed Conceptual Framework raised awareness regarding how the Brazilian Model BIT can be a feasible strategy to boost LMICs compliance towards achieving SDG 3.a. Likewise, it emphasised that the debate regarding ACFIs dissemination should be grounded in SDG 17 Targets, as it promotes a new approach to development, aligned with the Model apparatus.
policy space to implement norms. This impact results from the utilization of clauses that substantially modifies the rules and includes enforcement mechanisms that go beyond the minimum standards established at the multilateral level. Consequently, we can infer that there is a limitation on the capacity of States to make use of flexibilities available under the TRIPS agreement, crucial for countries when consolidating an intellectual property national system accountable to the needs and demands regarding public health and access to medicines.
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Purpose: Shed light on Alternative Model BITs, arguing that the absence of the investor-State clause protects Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) from investors’ international interference on national health policymaking.
Methods: literature review was carried out through a systematic search strategy aimed at compiling and appraising key issue areas related to countries’ policy space for achieving SDG 3.a. A qualitative analysis, comparing the US 2012 Standard Model BIT with the Alternative Brazilian Model BIT and Indian Model BIT, was also conducted. Then, an inductive perspective was applied.
Results: The Alternative Brazilian Model BIT - Agreement on Cooperation and Facilitation of Investments (ACFIs), the only Alternative Model BIT with no investor-State arbitration, is poorly discussed by the literature. No research framed the dissemination of an Alternative Model BIT in the grounds of SDG 17 concepts and principles, neither contextualised it in terms of implementing Plain Packaging measures.
Conclusions: The proposed Conceptual Framework raised awareness regarding how the Brazilian Model BIT can be a feasible strategy to boost LMICs compliance towards achieving SDG 3.a. Likewise, it emphasised that the debate regarding ACFIs dissemination should be grounded in SDG 17 Targets, as it promotes a new approach to development, aligned with the Model apparatus.
policy space to implement norms. This impact results from the utilization of clauses that substantially modifies the rules and includes enforcement mechanisms that go beyond the minimum standards established at the multilateral level. Consequently, we can infer that there is a limitation on the capacity of States to make use of flexibilities available under the TRIPS agreement, crucial for countries when consolidating an intellectual property national system accountable to the needs and demands regarding public health and access to medicines.