Belinda Townsend

Datos Biográficos

ID3928318
NOMBREBelinda Townsend
NOMBRESBelinda
APELLIDOTownsend
FIRMATOWNSEND B
AFILIACIONESMenzies Centre for Health Governance, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS14
TOTAL DE CITAS31
TOTAL COMO AUTOR14
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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