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  • Health Through Peace 2015 – Join the movement!

    December 1, 2015
    Health Through Peace 2015 – Join the movement!

    Health Through Peace 2015 – Join the movement!Watch this video on YouTube


  • Dr David McCoy – Responding to War, Violence and Conflict as a Health Community

    December 1, 2015
    Dr David McCoy – Responding to War, Violence and Conflict as a Health Community

    Dr David McCoy – Responding to War, Violence and Conflict as a Health CommunityWatch this video on YouTube


  • Andrew Feinstein at HTP2015 – “Inside the Global Arms Trade”

    November 27, 2015
    Andrew Feinstein at HTP2015 – “Inside the Global Arms Trade”

    Andrew Feinstein, author of 'The Shadow World – Inside the Global Arms Trade'Watch this video on YouTube


  • All the Videos from Health Through Peace 2015

    November 27, 2015
    All the Videos from Health Through Peace 2015

    Audio recordings of talks are also available:


  • Ben Griffin, Veterans for Peace – “War is probably the most destructive activity humanity participates in…”

    November 26, 2015
    Ben Griffin, Veterans for Peace – “War is probably the most destructive activity humanity participates in…”

    Ben Griffin, Veterans for Peace – "War is the most destructive activity humanity participates in…"Watch this video on YouTube


  • Professor Paul Rogers – “1945 to 2045 : A Century on the Edge”

    November 26, 2015
    Professor Paul Rogers – “1945 to 2045 : A Century on the Edge”

    Professor Paul Rogers: 1945 to 2045 – A Century on the EdgeWatch this video on YouTube


  • Divestment is No Grand Gesture

    August 3, 2015
    Divestment is No Grand Gesture

    This briefing by Dr David McCoy provides a structured and detailed examination of the arguments used by Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome Trust) and Charlie Jeffery (University of Edinburgh) to support continued investment […]


  • Medical Peace Work Online Course

    June 30, 2015
    Medical Peace Work Online Course

    Medical Peace Work consists of  seven online courses and a collection of teaching resources for medical peace education. They are free to all and are available on this website. The […]


  • Better Medical Care in Immigrant Detention Centres

    June 16, 2015
    Better Medical Care in Immigrant Detention Centres

    Following a meeting organised by Medact with the generous assistance of the Royal Society of Medicine, of seven doctors working in immigration detention centres and six from voluntary organisations produced a consensus statement for dissemination.


  • Health & Fracking – the impacts and opportunity costs

    March 30, 2015
    Health & Fracking – the impacts and opportunity costs

    Executive summary Background: “The United Kingdom (UK) is presently set to expand ‘hydraulic fracturing’ of shale formations (‘fracking’) as a means of extracting unconventional gas. Proponents of fracking have argued […]


  • Unhealthy Investments – fossil fuel investment and the health community

    February 3, 2015
    Unhealthy Investments – fossil fuel investment and the health community

    In this report Medact and other leading health and climate NGOs argue that the UK health community must phase out its investments in the fossil fuel industry, with air pollution […]


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