• Healthcare and Human Rights at the Bleeding Edge – Live Stream

    Healthcare and Human Rights at the Bleeding Edge – Live Stream

    Thank you for your interest in the live web-stream for Healthcare and Human Rights at the Bleeding Edge – a conference organised jointly by the University of Brighton and Medact. […]


  • Sessions from Health in Action 2014

    Sessions from Health in Action 2014

    Opening session and welcome 1. Welcome Gill Walt, Medact Patron and LSHTM 2. Medact, HPA and this conference David McCoy, Medact Director 3. Launch of Global Health Watch 4 Ron […]


  • Global Health Watch 4 – An Alternative World Health Report

    Global Health Watch 4 – An Alternative World Health Report

    The Global Health Watch is perceived widely as the definitive voice for an alternate discourse on health and health care. This 4th edition covers a range of issues that currently […]


  • Medact Student Blog: Inequality and Health

    Medact Student Blog: Inequality and Health

    In the first event of the Global Health Justice series, Medact and QMUL hosted a talk titled ‘Global Health Justice: Harnessing academia to inform policy’. This was attended by Global […]


  • Judith Anderson – The Psychology of Climate Change Denial

    Judith Anderson – The Psychology of Climate Change Denial

    Dr. Judith Anderson speaking in 2014 at the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Summit, organised by the Oxford Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. The Psychology of Climate Change DenialWatch this video on […]


  • Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa’s billion dollar losses

    Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa’s billion dollar losses

    Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa's billion dollar lossesWatch this video on YouTube The Global South is being drained of resources by the rest of the world and it […]


  • Comments on the Trident Commission

    Comments on the Trident Commission

    At the beginning of last month the ‘independent, cross-party inquiry to examine UK nuclear weapons policy’ – otherwise known  as the Trident Commission, issued its final report. The three co-chairs, […]


  • The Medical Effects of Nuclear Weapons

    The Medical Effects of Nuclear Weapons

    The effects of Nuclear War have been analysed by a number of campaign and medical groups, below is a selection of useful resources. Reports The concluding report from the Trident […]


  • The Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons

    The Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons

    Nuclear weapons have a unique and horrifying humanitarian impact. The only natural events to which a nuclear explosion can be compared are massive earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and similar disasters […]


  • The Secret Deal that Threatens the NHS

    The Secret Deal that Threatens the NHS

    TTIP and the NHS – the story of a cancer patients journey to Brussels   The Secret Deal that Threatens the NHSWatch this video on YouTube


  • Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa’s billion dollar losses – VIDEO

    Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa’s billion dollar losses – VIDEO

    The facts about poverty and its root causes do not stop our political leaders telling us how generous we are to Africa. Of how much they care about doing something […]