Annie Carroll, Postdoctoral Fellow, ANU Centre for Gambling Research, will deliver a seminar on The Democratic Road to Health for All in the Larry Saha room (HA2175) of the Hayden-Allen building ANU.

In this seminar I will outline results of my PhD research into trade unions and their public health activism.  Focussing on the second part of my dissertation, which explores the breadth of health-related activism carried out by peak international trade union organisations and their national affiliates, I argue that through organising working people to fight for and defend their rights, they also address a large array of socially-determined contributors to health beyond wages.  These include traditional and emerging occupational health and safety concerns, provision of social protection, and broader community health concerns such as HIV/AIDS.  Furthermore, they mobilise a large world-wide constituency of working people in pursuit of numerous socially-determined health goals, including: the ILO objective of Decent Work, the UNESCO ambition for Education for All, the WHO goal for Human Resources for Health, and the perennial WHO aspiration of Health for All.