Q2. What is the role of the WHO in promoting the health of consumers?
WHO and its governing body have taken an important step in democratizing the invite list to the policy table and establishing the dining etiquette.
Q3. What is the role of the private sector in regulating the activities of industry?
Do the authors rely upon self-regulation by industry (e.g., marketing codes or voluntary initiatives to reduce harmful exposure), co-regulation of the activities of industry (e.g. public sector partnerships with the private sector are an overarching approach within of WHO’s 2013-2020 Global Action Plan on NCDs8), or public regulation of private sector activities.
Q4. What is the role of NGOs in the WHO?
A small but not insignificant part of the project entails embracing the public interest NGOs, which it has too long treated as adversaries, as the partners it needs to generate both public support and political incentives to induce national leaders to act.
Q5. What is the definition of a conflict of interest?
Concerns have long been raised about potential and actual conflicts of interest arising from WHO’s engagement with non-State actors (NSA), particularly those whose mandate hingesforemost upon the pursuit of profit rather than public health.
Q6. What was the consensus on the Framework?
Members States were generally supportive of the Framework, but NGOs voiced concern that “FENSA will increase….problematic entanglements between WHO and powerful private sector actors”, and were disappointed that the Framework fails to “acknowledge the different nature – and thus different roles – public and private sector actors should play in global health governance”3.
Q7. What is the role of the WHO in governing the activities of industry?
Now WHO needs to jump decisively off the right side of the fence and take more impactful measures, globally and nationally, to protect the health of the public by aggressively supporting governments and their partners to govern the health impact of Big Industry.
Q8. What is the purpose of the FENSA framework?
A Reuters investigation, for example, found not only that regional office PAHO had accepted money from companies such as Coca-Cola, Nestle and Unilever, but also that at least two of the 15 members of WHO’s Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Group had direct financial ties to the food industry5.