Billie Townsend

Datos Biográficos

ID259762
NOMBREBillie Townsend
NOMBRESBillie
APELLIDOTownsend
FIRMATOWNSEND B
AFILIACIONESAustralian National University
ORCID0000-0002-2480-2820
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS28
TOTAL DE CITAS48
TOTAL COMO AUTOR28
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2015
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Non-governmental organisations and the regulation of harmful commodity industries

    Open AccessKathrin Lauber, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    Background The crucial role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in advancing effective regulation of health-harming corporate practices is widely accepted, yet how precisely they shape global health governance is not well-understood. While a vast literature has grappled with corporate power and its political, market, and technological dimensions, less attention has been paid to strategic efforts to counter the influence of corporate actors. …

  • Logics of (dis)engagement

    Open AccessBillie Townsend, Belinda Townsend et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    A central question in contemporary health governance is how to prevent undue corporate influence. There is limited practical guidance beyond the tobacco control model. Global partnership approaches have continued to promote alcohol and ultra-processed food (UPF) industry engagement, and these industries have influenced policy and governance in ways that benefit their interests, often to the detriment of strong health regulation. In Australia indu…

  • Protecting Access to Medicines After Cambodia Graduates From Least Developed Country Status

    Open AccessBrigitte Tenni, Joel Lexchin et al.ARTICLEGlobal Policy2025

    Cambodia is a least developed country (LDC); however, it may graduate from the LDC status by 2029 Membership in the World Trade Organisation, will require Cambodia to provide patent protection for medicines that meet standard criteria. This qualitative policy analysis examines Cambodia's readiness for LDC graduation in terms of protecting access to medicines and explores how it can prepare to mitigate the impact of graduation on access to medicin…

  • Doing (and undoing) privilege

    Open AccessAshley Schram, Amy Carrad et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2025

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

  • Monitoring privilege for health equity

    Open AccessAmy Carrad, Ashley Schram et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 37

    The World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health highlighted the need to measure and monitor the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources across society. Efforts to monitor health inequity focus on disadvantage rather than advantage or privilege, and on proximal health outcomes rather than distal social and structural determinants of health. This study aimed to identify a comprehensive set of key indicato…

  • Blending Western and Australian Aboriginal Approaches

    Open AccessEmma Webster, Gemma Purcell-Khodr et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025Referencias: 28

    Cancer treatments have failed to reach people who live in rural and remote Australia. Geographic constraints on service delivery are exacerbated for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who continue to be marginalised by a colonial legacy that drives disparities in access to healthcare. This is particularly evident in the remote communities of Bourke and Brewarrina which are home to significant Aboriginal populations. They are located 10…

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

    Open AccessR Ralston, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLEPolicy and Society2024Referencias: 33

    The intensification of efforts by state and nonstate actors to address issues affecting global health has produced a patchwork of transnational regulatory governance. Within this field, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are expected to perform authoritative roles in holding business actors to account and enhance the democratic legitimacy of institutions via their participation in governance processes. While there exists a large body of concept…

  • Public health advocacy strategies to influence policy agendas

    Open AccessBillie Townsend, Brigitte Frances Tenni et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2023

  • A framework of NGO inside and outside strategies in the commercial determinants of health

    Open AccessBillie Townsend, Timothy D Johnson et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2023

  • Global inequities in access to Covid-19 health products and technologies

    Open AccessDeborah Gleeson, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2023Citada por: 8Referencias: 4

    This paper presents a political economy analysis of global inequities in access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic tests. We adapt a conceptual model used for analysing the political economy of global extraction and health to examine the politico-economic factors affecting access to COVID-19 health products and technologies in four interconnected layers: the social, political, and historical context; politics, institutions, and poli…

  • Advancing Indigenous self-determination and health equity

    Open AccessToby Freeman, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2022

    The 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) targeted Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory in Australia. The NTER imposed draconian measures unfavourable to health, contributing to health inequities. There is little research investigating why the NTER was framed so negatively, and how this framing passed into legislation so unassailably. We used institutional theory to understand what factors contributed to the NTER agenda fr…

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

    Open AccessBrigitte Tenni, Hazel V J Moir et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2022

  • Promoting action on structural drivers of health inequity

    Ashley Schram, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 8

    Background: Insufficient progress has been made towards reducing health inequities, due in part to a lack of action on the root causes of health inequities. At present, there is a limited evidence base to guide policy decision making in this space. Key points for discussion: This paper proposes new principles for researchers to conduct health equity policy evaluation. Four key principles are presented: (1) where to evaluate – shifting from famili…

  • Why are Indigenous Affairs Policies Framed in ways that Undermine Indigenous Health and Equity

    Open AccessToby Freeman, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLEInternational Indigenous Policy…2022

    The 2007 Australian Northern Territory Emergency Response policy was harmful to the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We thematically analysed 72 speech acts and reports from the three prominent perspectives: a Northern Territory government inquiry report, the Federal government, and an Aboriginal civil society coalition to examine how framings during the policy agenda setting phase constrained or supported scope for equitab…

  • Industry submissions on alcohol in the context of Australia's trade and investment agreements

    Open AccessMia Miller, Claire Wilkinson et al.ARTICLEDrug and Alcohol Review2021

  • Defending access to medicines in regional trade agreements

    Open AccessBillie TownsendARTICLEGlobalization and Health2021

    BACKGROUND: The Regional Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) is a mega regional trade agreement signed by fifteen countries on 15 November 2020 after 8 years of negotiation. Signatories include the ten members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Australia. India was a negotiating party until it withdrew from the negotiations in November 2019. The RCEP negotiations were initially…

  • Glossary on free trade agreements and health part 2

    Open AccessCourtney Mcnamara, Ronald Labonté et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 23

    Part 1 of this glossary provided a brief background on the rise of regional/bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) and described the health implications of new trade obligations that figure prominently in current and recent trade negotiations, focusing on those provisions that build on previous agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This approach continues into part 2 of the glossary, which also considers components of FTAs that have n…

  • Glossary on free trade agreements and health part 1

    Open AccessCourtney Mcnamara, Ronald Labonté et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2021Referencias: 18

    The global trading system has undergone a shift away from multilateral trade negotiations to a ‘spaghetti-bowl’ of regional and bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs). In this two-part glossary, we discuss why this shift has occurred, focusing on how it poses new challenges for public health. Specifically, we introduce key terms that shape this new trading environment and explain them through a public health lens. Part 1 of this glossary focuses …

  • Power and the people's health

    Open AccessSharon Friel, Billie Townsend et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Citada por: 22Referencias: 53

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

    Open AccessBillie Townsend, Belinda Townsend et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2020

    How do public health advocates and practitioners encourage policy actors to address the social determinants of health? What strategies can be used to elevate healthy social policies onto government agendas? In this paper, we examine the case of Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme, announced in 2009 after decades of policy advocacy. This scheme provides job-protected leave and government-funded pay at the minimum wage for 18 week…

  • A glossary of theories for understanding power and policy for health equity

    Open AccessPatrick Harris, Franziska Baum et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2020Citada por: 7Referencias: 37

    Progressing public policies that improve health equity requires understanding and addressing the creation, use and distribution of power. This glossary provides an overview of some of the most relevant conceptualisations of the dynamics of power in policy with implications for health equity. The aim is to provide an accessible overview of the different theories and perspectives behind power for public health focused policy researchers and advocat…

  • Bringing in critical frameworks to investigate agenda-setting for the social determinants of health

    Open AccessBillie Townsend, Belinda Townsend et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 21

  • Analyzing the impact of trade and investment agreements on pharmaceutical policy

    Open AccessDeborah Gleeson, Joel Lexchin et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2019

    BACKGROUND: Trade and investment agreements negotiated after the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) have included increasingly elevated protection of intellectual property rights along with an expanding array of rules impacting many aspects of pharmaceutical policy. Despite the large body of literature on intellectual property and access to affordable medicines, the ways in which …

  • An exposé of the realpolitik of trade negotiations

    Open AccessSharon Friel, Phillip Baker et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2019

    Objective: To explore the formal and informal ways in which different actors involved in shaping trade agreements pursue their interests and understand the interactions with nutrition, in order to improve coherence between trade and nutrition policy goals. Design: The paper draws on empirical evidence from Australian key informant interviews that explore the underlying political dimensions of trade agreements that act as barriers or facilitators …

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

    Open AccessBillie Townsend, Belinda Townsend et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2019Citada por: 6Referencias: 17