Interface of health and trade: a view point from health diplomacy

### Summary box Traditionally, health diplomacy has been focused on achieving policy dialogue and consensus between states on important matters affecting and governing health. With the growing expansion of social, economic and political determinants of health, health diplomacy becomes equally focused on dialogue and coherence between different sectors. This makes the multisectoral dimension as an integral and equally important element of multilateral negotiations for health. Another recent phenomenon is the legal nature of global health instruments aimed at and resulting from some of the international negotiations for health. The adoption of the WHO’s first global treaty, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC),1 and more recently its first Protocol,2 which is a new international treaty in its own right, have had a profound …