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  • Digesting the Indigestible

    September 19, 2017
    Digesting the Indigestible

    Unravelling hospital food policy and practices, and finding the way towards healthier, tastier and more sustainable hospital food


  • A Safer World – Treating Britain’s harmful dependence on nuclear weapons

    July 25, 2017
    A Safer World – Treating Britain’s harmful dependence on nuclear weapons

    The world now has an international treaty making it illegal for ratifying states to possess nuclear weapons. Our new report takes this opportunity to re-examine the arguments for and against the UK’s continued adherence to its own nuclear arsenal.


  • How to Divest a Health Institution

    May 5, 2017
    How to Divest a Health Institution

    Two years on from the release of our first report on health and fossil fuel investments, “Unhealthy Investments”, the divestment movement has grown exponentially and health institutions worldwide have made […]


  • The Recruitment of Children by the UK Armed Forces – a critique from health professionals

    November 17, 2016
    The Recruitment of Children by the UK Armed Forces – a critique from health professionals

    This report considers the long-term impacts of the British military’s recruitment of children under the age of 18, presents evidence linking ‘serious health concerns’ with the policy, and calls for a […]


  • Dash for Gas? Background Document for Public Health Assessment of Shale Gas

    September 12, 2016
    Dash for Gas?  Background Document for Public Health Assessment of Shale Gas

    Behind our shorter report, Shale Gas Production in England – an Updated Public Health Assessment, released in July 2016, is a more detailed and fully referenced set of long notes about […]


  • Shale Gas Production in England – an updated public health assessment

    July 7, 2016
    Shale Gas Production in England – an updated public health assessment

    Download: A Public Health Assessment of Shale Gas in England Medact’s new report summarises the findings of a public health assessment of unconventional shale gas production in England.  In 2015 […]


  • 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 […]


  • Global Health Watch 4 – An Alternative World Health Report

    October 29, 2014
    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 […]


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

    September 10, 2014
    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 […]


  • Health Impact Assessment and Conflict – a case study to assess the potential health consequences of military action against Iran

    April 30, 2014
    Health Impact Assessment and Conflict – a case study to assess the potential health consequences of military action against Iran

    Medact has developed a Health Impact Assessment of what the consequences of military action would be for health if armed conflict against Iran by the United States and its allies were […]


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