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  • Homes for Health: The Public Health Case for Social Housing

    July 25, 2024
    Homes for Health: The Public Health Case for Social Housing

    This booklet sets out a brief history of housing policy in the UK, and offers a vision for how we can achieve a just future with secure, healthy and affordable homes for all


  • Homes for Health: The Public Health Case to Warm Our Homes, Not Our Planet

    July 3, 2024
    Homes for Health: The Public Health Case to Warm Our Homes, Not Our Planet

    Transforming our energy system and upgrading our homes will result in a triple win for our planet, our homes, and our economy


  • Briefing: Nuclear Militarisation – How it threatens humanity

    October 5, 2023
    Briefing: Nuclear Militarisation – How it threatens humanity

    A new summary of the science of nuclear weapons and the threat they pose to human survival.


  • Exploring non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers – Survey briefing

    November 23, 2022
    Exploring non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers – Survey briefing

    Our briefing on new research into health workers’ non-violent resistance based on surveys and interviews with Medact members


  • A People’s Economy: economic justice & health booklets

    March 17, 2022
    A People’s Economy: economic justice & health booklets

    Check out our brand new booklets, developed by members of the Economic Justice & Health Group. Each explores the public health case for liveable incomes, secure housing and tax justice.


  • The Public Health Case Against the Policing Bill

    November 15, 2021
    The Public Health Case Against the Policing Bill

    This briefing argues that the PCSC Bill’s expansion of police power and prisons will in fact harm public health


  • Play the health card — the case for climate & health justice at the UN Climate Talks

    October 27, 2021
    Play the health card — the case for climate & health justice at the UN Climate Talks

    ‘Play the health card the case for climate & health justice at the UN Climate Talks’ was written to lay out the reasoning behind the demands of the Health for […]


  • Serious violence measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill undermine public health

    September 8, 2021
    Serious violence measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill undermine public health

    A briefing focusing on the risks of harm associated with the proposed Serious Violence Duty (SVD) and Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs) in the PCSC Bill.


  • Medact & nuclear power: considering our position

    August 19, 2021
    Medact & nuclear power: considering our position

    Medact consultation briefing The climate crisis is the single biggest threat to public health. Medact has called for the UK to transition to a zero-carbon economy by 2030 as part […]


  • The public health case for a Green New Deal

    April 8, 2021
    The public health case for a Green New Deal

    In this new briefing, our Climate & Health Group make the public health case for a transformative Green New Deal.


  • Health Versus Wealth? UK economic policy and public health during COVID-19

    February 16, 2021
    Health Versus Wealth? UK economic policy and public health during COVID-19

    In this new briefing, our Economic Justice & Health Group shine a light on the UK government’s assumption that the health of the public and the economy are in tension.


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