All Stories

  1. Monitoring privilege for health equity: building consensus on indicators to monitor socioeconomic advantage through a modified Delphi survey

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, August 2025, Elsevier

    Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend

  2. Doing (and undoing) privilege: evaluating how public policy drives health inequities

    Article • Critical Public Health, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend

  3. Protecting Access to Medicines After Cambodia Graduates From Least Developed Country Status: A Policy Analysis

    Article • Global Policy, February 2025, Wiley

    Belinda Townsend

  4. Pandemic Agreement Must Include Levers to Redirect Pharmaceutical Industry Behaviour During Pandemics Comment on "More Pain, More Gain! The Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines and the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Role in Widening the Access Gap"

    Article • International Journal of Health Policy and Management, September 2024, MaadRayan Publishing Company

    Belinda Townsend

  5. Factors influencing the prioritisation of access to medicines in trade‐related intellectual property policymaking in Thailand

    Article • The Journal of World Intellectual Property, June 2024, Wiley

    Belinda Townsend

  6. Trade and investment

    Article • January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Belinda Townsend

  7. NGOs and Global Business Regulation of Transnational Alcohol and Ultra-Processed Food Industries

    Article • Policy and Society, January 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Katherine Cullerton, Belinda Townsend

  8. A framework of NGO inside and outside strategies in the commercial determinants of health: findings from a narrative review

    Article • Globalization and Health, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Katherine Cullerton, Belinda Townsend

  9. Global inequities in access to COVID-19 health products and technologies: A political economy analysis

    Article • Health & Place, September 2023, Elsevier

    Belinda Townsend

  10. Public health advocacy strategies to influence policy agendas: lessons from a narrative review of success in trade policy

    Article • Globalization and Health, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Belinda Townsend

  11. Advancing Indigenous self-determination and health equity: Lessons from a failed Australian public policy

    Article • SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, December 2022, Elsevier

    Belinda Townsend

  12. Why are Indigenous Affairs Policies Framed in ways that Undermine Indigenous Health and Equity?

    Article • International Indigenous Policy Journal, October 2022, University of Western Ontario, Western Libraries

    Belinda Townsend

  13. Four actions Australia should take to advance equitable global access to COVID‐19 vaccines

    Article • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, August 2022, Elsevier

    Belinda Townsend

  14. Governing ultra‐processed food and alcohol industries: the presence and role of non‐government organisations in Australia

    Article • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, May 2022, Wiley

    Belinda Townsend, Dr Katherine Cullerton

  15. What is the impact of intellectual property rules on access to medicines? A systematic review

    Article • Globalization and Health, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Belinda Townsend

  16. Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity: principles for policy evaluation

    Article • Evidence & Policy, February 2022, Policy Press

    Belinda Townsend, Ashley Schram

  17. Power and the people's health

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, August 2021, Elsevier

    Belinda Townsend

  18. Defending access to medicines in regional trade agreements: lessons from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership – a qualitative study of policy actors’ views

    Article • Globalization and Health, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Belinda Townsend

  19. Australia in 2030: what is our path to health for all?

    Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, May 2021, Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. (AMPCo)

    Belinda Townsend

  20. Universal health coverage for the poorest billion: justice and equity considerations

    Article • The Lancet, February 2021, Elsevier

    Belinda Townsend

  21. Glossary on free trade agreements and health part 2: new trade rules and new urgencies in the context of COVID-19

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, January 2021, BMJ

    Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend

  22. Glossary on free trade agreements and health part 1: the shift from multilateralism and the rise of ‘WTO-Plus’ provisions

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, January 2021, BMJ

    Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend

  23. International Trade Agreements and Global Health: Pathways and Politics

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Belinda Townsend

  24. Creating Political Will for Action on Health Equity: Practical Lessons for Public Health Policy Actors

    Article • International Journal of Health Policy and Management, December 2020, MaadRayan Publishing Company

    Belinda Townsend

  25. Industry submissions on alcohol in the context of Australia's trade and investment agreements: A content and thematic analysis of publicly available documents

    Article • Drug and Alcohol Review, November 2020, Wiley

    Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend, Robin Room

  26. Advancing a health equity agenda across multiple policy domains: a qualitative policy analysis of social, trade and welfare policy

    Article • BMJ Open, November 2020, BMJ

    Belinda Townsend, Ashley Schram

  27. International Trade and Investment and Food Systems: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know

    Article • International Journal of Health Policy and Management, October 2020, MaadRayan Publishing Company

    Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend

  28. Tackling NCDs: The Need to Address Alcohol Industry Interference and Policy Incoherence Across Sectors Comment on "Towards Preventing and Managing Conflict of Interest in Nutrition Policy? An Analysis of Submissions to a Consultation on a Draft WHO Tool"

    Article • International Journal of Health Policy and Management, September 2020, MaadRayan Publishing Company

    Belinda Townsend

  29. What Generates Attention to Health in Trade PolicyMaking? Lessons From Success in Tobacco Control and Access to Medicines: A Qualitative Study of Australia and the (Comprehensive and Progressive) Trans-Pacific Partnership

    Article • International Journal of Health Policy and Management, June 2020, MaadRayan Publishing Company

    Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend

  30. Trade and investment agreements as structural drivers for NCDs: the new public health frontier

    Article • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, April 2020, Wiley

    Belinda Townsend, Ashley Schram

  31. Bringing in critical frameworks to investigate agenda-setting for the social determinants of health: Lessons from a multiple framework analysis

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, April 2020, Elsevier

    Belinda Townsend

  32. A glossary of theories for understanding power and policy for health equity

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, March 2020, BMJ

    Belinda Townsend, Ashley Schram

  33. The nexus between international trade, food systems, malnutrition and climate change

    Article • Nature Food, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Belinda Townsend, Ashley Schram

  34. International Trade Agreements and Global Health: Pathways and Politics

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend

  35. Next Steps for Elevating Health on Trade and Investment Policy Agendas Comment on "How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for NCD Prevention"

    Article • International Journal of Health Policy and Management, December 2019, MaadRayan Publishing Company

    Belinda Townsend

  36. Toxic trade: the impact of preferential trade agreements on alcohol imports from Australia in partner countries

    Article • Addiction, December 2019, Wiley

    Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend

  37. Analyzing the impact of trade and investment agreements on pharmaceutical policy: provisions, pathways and potential impacts

    Article • Globalization and Health, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Belinda Townsend

  38. Public health over private wealth: rebalancing public and private interests in international trade and investment agreements

    Article • Public Health Research & Practice, September 2019, The Sax Institutute

    Belinda Townsend, Ashley Schram

  39. How can multiple frames enable action on social determinants? Lessons from Australia’s paid parental leave

    Article • Health Promotion International, September 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Belinda Townsend

  40. How do actors with asymmetrical power assert authority in policy agenda-setting? A study of authority claims by health actors in trade policy

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, September 2019, Elsevier

    Belinda Townsend, Ashley Schram

  41. An exposé of the realpolitik of trade negotiations: implications for population nutrition

    Article • Public Health Nutrition, August 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Belinda Townsend, Ashley Schram

  42. How does policy framing enable or constrain inclusion of social determinants of health and health equity on trade policy agendas?

    Article • Critical Public Health, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend, Sharon Friel

  43. Power asymmetries, policy incoherence and noncommunicable disease control - a qualitative study of policy actor views

    Article • Critical Public Health, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Belinda Townsend

  44. Japan's emerging role in the global pharmaceutical intellectual property regime: A tale of two trade agreements

    Article • The Journal of World Intellectual Property, February 2018, Wiley

    Belinda Townsend

  45. Financial costs associated with monopolies on biologic medicines in Australia

    Article • Australian Health Review, November 2017, CSIRO Publishing

    Belinda Townsend

  46. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, Intellectual Property Protection, and Access to Medicines

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, November 2016, SAGE Publications

    Belinda Townsend

  47. Pharma's next frontier? New threats to public health in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement

    Article • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, February 2016, Elsevier

    Belinda Townsend

  48. International medicines governance 1940s to 1970s: lessons for public health

    Article • Critical Public Health, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Belinda Townsend

  49. Emerging theoretical frameworks for global health governance

    Article • September 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Belinda Townsend

  50. Global Health Governance: Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the Doha Declaration, and Democratisation

    Article • Administrative Sciences, May 2012, MDPI AG

    Belinda Townsend

  51. Pharma's Next Frontier? New Threats to Public Health in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Deborah Gleeson, Belinda Townsend