Welcome to Medact’s Annual Report 2024–25. This year’s report highlights our unwavering commitment to advancing health justice and building solidarity within the health community. Inside, you’ll find powerful messages and impactful articles from our Chair and staff members, with the themes of our new Organisational Strategy 2025–30 and our impacts from across the last year woven throughout. From Professor Anuj Kapilashrami’s call for health workers to unite fractured societies, to Anna Peiris’ vision for Medact as a political home for the health community, our work continues to be driven by a vision of “a world in which everyone is able to live healthy, dignified lives, supported by political and economic systems that centre health justice”.
James Skinner and Callum Barnes reflect on our wins in the struggle for health justice, celebrating the progress health workers and tenants made at the Nags Head estate and Barton House. Nina Radulović discusses the critical importance of global health solidarity, particularly in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Maria Carvalho and TJ Chuah examine how climate justice in the UK is intrinsically linked to housing and energy justice, addressing the urgent need for ending fuel poverty. Finally, Col Fallowfield and Sarah Lasoye outline a bold vision for healthcare that is free from borders and violence, advocating for an abolitionist approach to health.
This is the digital edition of our Annual Report 2024–25. You can also download a PDF version.
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Leading the change from below – building a countervailing power for health justice
The health community has a crucial role to play in uniting fractured societies, fostering trust, and working in solidarity with those facing health inequity.
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A growing movement for health justice
At Medact, we are committed to being a political home for the health community where everyone can come together to learn, grow and take action.
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Gaza under siege, health solidarity across the globe
As we are entering a new era – built on the principles of health justice, collective care and solidarity – we will continue to campaign for Palestinian liberation.
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Towards abolishing borders and violence in healthcare
An abolitionist approach to health offers a vision where care is accessible to all, and violence no longer defines the systems that affect our wellbeing.
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Climate justice means housing and energy justice
Broken energy systems and poor housing are the most immediate ways the climate crisis harms people in the UK.
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Homes for Health: How we win Health Justice
Our work to win health justice is most effective when it is led by the people most impacted by health inequities
