Climate & Health Campaigner @ Medact
Could you lead our work supporting health workers to campaign for just and proportionate action on climate change?
Patients Not Passports – Migrants’ Access to Healthcare During the Coronavirus Crisis
Medact’s new briefing paper examines the barriers to accessing healthcare for migrants during the coronavirus crisis
COVID-19 affects everything – more than a disease control plan, we need a manifesto
In this new piece, former Medact Director and Professor of Global Public Health David McCoy discusses the need for a much broader, whole-societal response to COVID-19.
Responding to coronavirus ─ intersections with war, militarised violence and the arms industry
Medact Peace & Security Campaigner Reem Abu-Hayyeh looks at the legacies of war and militarised violence, their impacts on countries’ ability to respond to coronavirus, and how the UK could act to right injustices.
Supporting migrants to access healthcare during this crisis
The COVID-19 Pandemic has thrown fresh light and scrutiny on our NHS. Alongside the heroism of healthcare workers and the hard work being done to counter the virus, the crisis has also reinforced the importance of an inclusive and truly universal healthcare system,...Responding to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into stark relief the serious health inequalities that exist both in the UK and across the world. In response we have seen incredible kindness, and witnessed all kinds of actions to both serve our both communities immediate needs, and to tackle some of the inequalities that threaten to worsen the problem.
To fight this pandemic, we must radically re-imagine public health
Our public health is only as strong as our economic and social fabric.
2020 Gathering POSTPONED
With much disappointment, after careful consideration and consultation, we have now decided to postpone our upcoming Health Justice conference in light of the current situation regarding Coronavirus.
Marmot 2020: Health workers call for a Health and Wellbeing Budget
The findings of the recent Marmot review throw into stark relief the health inequalities caused by austerity. It links choices made in our economic, social and political system to negative and avoidable health outcomes.
Royal College of Psychiatrists goes Fossil Free
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has today announced that it is divesting from coal, oil and gas companies. The College’s multi-million-pound investment portfolio will go free of fossil fuels with immediate effect. The announcement comes after some impactful...A Plan to turn back the clock – defence diversification
To mark the imminent release of the film The Plan, we publish this piece by Sam Mason, a campaigner for the New Lucas Plan, explaining the history and present of workers organising for a transition away from socially destructive jobs to those for the good of society.