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Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World: 2025 Lecture
We were privileged to host a conversation between Dr Carlos Umaña, Cordelia Vesely and Jake Atkinson – chaired by Marion Birch.
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The 2026 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize
Submissions for the 2026 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize are open until 28th February, 2026
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Insights and Advocacy from the 2025 IPPNW Nagasaki World Congress
The IPPNW congress reaffirmed nuclear abolition as a humanitarian and public health imperative ahead of our lecture, Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World.
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How can we bring about a world free from nuclear weapons?
Seven billion humans are not going to give up their lives because deterrence theorists have made a certain miscalculation.
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The fallibility of nuclear deterrence
Given that nuclear deterrence is not infallible and that nuclear war is not survivable, it must follow that we divest from nuclear weapons.
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The damages of nuclear tests on humanity
In the run up to our upcoming evening lecture: Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World, members of the Nuclear Weapons Group reflect on key issues for the movement for nuclear […]
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Statement on Gaza ceasefire
The ceasefire agreement, and accompanying Trump-Netanyahu 20 point plan, lays out a deeply colonial approach to the future of Gaza.
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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.