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  • In Solidarity – From UK Health Workers to US Health Workers Resisting ICE

    February 3, 2026
    In Solidarity – From UK Health Workers to US Health Workers Resisting ICE

    In offering our grief and solidarity, we re-commit ourselves to standing with all our fellow health workers resisting fascism, from Minneapolis to Gaza.


  • VACANCIES: We’re recruiting Trustees, Treasurer, and Chair of the Board

    February 2, 2026
    VACANCIES: We’re recruiting Trustees, Treasurer, and Chair of the Board

    Are you passionate about health justice? Medact is seeking new Trustees to help oversee our governance and support our work.  


  • Medact Statement on the US intervention in Venezuela

    January 13, 2026
    Medact Statement on the US intervention in Venezuela

    Venezuela, despite its internal problems, does not deserve to be the latest victim of American hegemony.


  • The IPPNW Statement on the US Intervention in Venezuela

    January 8, 2026
    The IPPNW Statement on the US Intervention in Venezuela

    The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) condemns the militaryintervention by the United States on January 3, 2026 in Venezuela. As the United Nations High Commissioner for […]


  • Palestine, Health and the Limits of Humanitarianism – Resources

    December 16, 2025
    Palestine, Health and the Limits of Humanitarianism – Resources

    RESOURCES LINKS [TAKE ACTION] No Palantir in the NHS campaign petition https://nopalantir.org.uk/ and https://goodlawproject.org/campaign/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/  [TAKE ACTION] East London Health Workers for a Free Palestine open letter https://Eastlondonhw4pal.short.gy/HW4PAL [WEBSITE] Institute for […]


  • Trans Health Justice – Resources

    December 10, 2025
    Trans Health Justice – Resources

    Trans healthcare isn’t complicated – it’s about understanding, advocacy, and de-mystifying the care process.


  • Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World: 2025 Lecture

    December 1, 2025
    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.


  • The 2026 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize

    November 27, 2025
    The 2026 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize

    Submissions for the 2026 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize are open until 28th February, 2026


  • Insights and Advocacy from the 2025 IPPNW Nagasaki World Congress

    October 28, 2025
    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.


  • How can we bring about a world free from nuclear weapons?

    October 22, 2025
    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.


  • The fallibility of nuclear deterrence

    October 22, 2025
    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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