Deborah Gleeson

@DrDebGleeson

Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University; Co-convener, Political Economy of Health Special Interest Group, PHAA

Joined September 2012

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Deborah Gleeson @DrDebGleeson Apr 13, 2025

Last week I spoke with Becca Whitehead from MJA Insight about Trump, trade and access to generics in Australia. insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/14/the-pb… #publichealth

insightplus.mja.com.au The PBS targeted in Trump’s trade war: experts fear long term fall… As the Trump administration continues its program of “reciprocal tariffs” and the pharmaceutical industry calls out the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme…

Deborah Gleeson @DrDebGleeson Apr 7, 2025

Everyone’s talking about threats to the PBS, but it’s how quickly generics enter the market that’s actually at stake if Australia decides to negotiate over so-called non-tariff barriers to trade for US pharma companies. Here's my explainer: theconversation.com/trump-has-aust… #publichealth

Deborah Gleeson @DrDebGleeson Mar 14, 2025

I have an exciting PhD scholarship opportunity to share for an interdisciplinary project on 'The Political Economy of the Pharmaceutical Innovation System in the UK and Australia and Access to Medical Products for Pandemics'! More information: latrobe.edu.au/study/scholars…

Deborah Gleeson @DrDebGleeson Sep 10, 2024

Our new commentary in IJHPM: Pandemic Agreement Must Include Levers to Redirect Pharmaceutical Industry Behaviour During Pandemics ijhpm.com/article_4638.h… #PublicHealth @btenni @ScheibnerJames @BelTownsend with Di Nicol

www.ijhpm.com Pandemic Agreement Must Include Levers to Redirect Pharmaceutical Industry Behaviour During... Borges and colleagues rightly argue that an international treaty is needed to curtail the profit-driven behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry during pandemics. The Pandemic Agreement currently...

Deborah Gleeson @DrDebGleeson Sep 8, 2024

Africa desperately needs mpox vaccines. But donations from rich countries won’t fix this or the next health emergency theconversation.com/africa-despera… via @ConversationEDU @btenni

theconversation.com Africa desperately needs mpox vaccines. But donations from rich countries won’t fix this or the... We can’t rely on rich countries to donate mpox vaccines. Here’s what we need to do instead.