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Climate Science for Health Professionals – a presentation and discussion of the IPCC Working Group 1 report
Health professionals are not climate scientists. But climate science is of profound importance to health professionals. Global warming is already having a significant negative impact on human health; it threatens […]
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Atoms for Peace Report Launch
Medact and the Nuclear Information Service release Atoms for Peace report at UCL. The report uncovered university links to the UK’s nuclear weapons programme. The reports findings and the ethics […]
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Atoms for Peace – the Atomic Weapons Establishment and UK universities
Medact and the Nuclear Information Service have undertaken a two-year study to investigate research links between British universities and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), which is responsible for designing and manufacturing […]
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Drones – 2013 update
This update to the original 2012 report recommends greater parliamentary and public scrutiny of the use of drones, their inclusion in arms limitation treaties, and a stop to further automation in […]
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Recording from Relaunch Conference 2013
Medact Relaunch Conference 2013Watch this video on YouTube
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Global Health Watch 3
At the World Health Assembly in May 2003, the People’s Health Movement (PHM), together with the Global Equity Gauge Alliance (GEGA) and Medact discussed the need for civil society to […]
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Why Nuclear Weapons remain a very present danger – a briefing for UK health professionals
Medact member Frank Boulton has produced the following report on why nuclear weapons remain a very present danger. This briefing describes the current situation concerning nuclear weapons in a global context and why […]
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The Delusional Thinking Behind a Policy of 'Nuclear Deterrence'
Twenty-one years ago the national conference of the Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW) questioned the thinking behind the nuclear arms race. MCANW’s members were particularly concerned that this race was continuing despite positive […]
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Blood transfusion services in the wake of the humanitarian and health crisis following multiple detonations of nuclear weapons
The nuclear detonations in August 1945 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (at 16 and 21 Kt equivalent respectively) killed at least 110,000 citizens immediately: an estimated further 130,000 died by the […]
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Mental Health Policy in Iraq since 2003
(updated 2012) This report provides a case study of the post-conflict rehabilitation of services and development of mental health policy following the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It illustrates common […]
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Drones – the physical and psychological implications of a global theatre of war
On October 13th 2012, Medact released its report “Drones: the physical and psychological implications of a global theatre of war“. In the past decade, there has been an exponential increase […]