Global public health agreements are heralded as a success for the affirmation of the right to health within a complex … overlooked. This article outlines two radically different global health agreements: The Doha Declaration on the Trade …-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement and Public Health; and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control …

agreements related to tobacco control and public health more broadly. Australia appears to be attempting in its various … agreements to reach a balance between broad protections for public health that may prove difficult to interpret and apply and … more concrete references to tobacco control (and other specified programs) that do not protect other aspects of health …