Research Fellow, NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
Dr. Belinda Townsend is a Research Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. She earned her PhD in political science at Deakin University and has undergraduate degrees in political science (Honours), anthropology and public health.
Belinda has published on the impact of trade agreements on health with a focus on medicines policy and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.
She is working with the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity on a project investigating agenda setting for health in public policy.
Experience
2017–present
Research Fellow, ANU
Education
2014
Deakin University, PhD Politics
2009
Deakin University , BA(Hon)
2008
Deakin University , BAppSc(Health Sc)
Publications
2018
How does policy framing enable or constrain inclusion of social determinants of health and health equity on trade policy agendas?, Critical Public Health
2018
Japan's emerging role in the global pharmaceutical intellectual property regime: A tale of two trade agreements, The Journal of World Intellectual Property
2018
Power asymmetries, policy incoherence and noncommunicable disease control - a qualitative study of policy actor views, Critical Public Health
2017
Financial costs associated with monopolies on biologic medicines in Australia, Australian Health Review
2015
Pharma’s next frontier? New Threats to Public Health in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, Aust NZ J Public Health
2015
International medicines governance 1940s to 1970s: lessons for public health, Critical Public Health
2014
Australia's Position on Patents and Medicines Policy in Global Forums: The Need for Greater Transparency and Accountability, Journal of Australian Political Economy
2012
Global Health Governance: Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the Doha Declaration, and Democratisation, Journal of Administrative Sciences