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  • Making effective Freedom of Information Requests

    November 4, 2020
    Making effective Freedom of Information Requests

    Making effective Freedom of Information RequestsWatch this video on YouTube   Medact Research Manager, Dr Hilary Aked, recently led a training session giving supporters the know-how to make effective Freedom of […]


  • Action Call: Housing & public health ─ the eviction crisis in the time of COVID-19

    September 3, 2020
    Action Call: Housing & public health ─ the eviction crisis in the time of COVID-19

    Watch a recording of our Action Call with London Renters Union & Pathways where we discussed the interconnected issues of housing justice and health equity.


  • CAAT Reading Group – Coronavirus & The Arms Trade

    August 24, 2020
    CAAT Reading Group – Coronavirus & The Arms Trade

    Watch our Peace and Security Campaigner, Reem Abu-Hayyeh, lead a reading group for our friends at Campaign Against the Arms Trade on the topic of Coronavirus and the Arms Trade.


  • First principles of health justice: a human right to be healthy – Sridhar Venkatapuram – TEDxLSHTM

    June 27, 2017
    First principles of health justice: a human right to be healthy – Sridhar Venkatapuram – TEDxLSHTM

    In this talk at TEDxLSHTM, Medact Trustee Sridhar Venkatapuram argues that every human being has a human right to the capability to be healthy.


  • Kinari Webb at Healthy Planet – “Radical Listening: Saving Lives and Rainforest in Borneo”

    March 10, 2017
    Kinari Webb at Healthy Planet – “Radical Listening: Saving Lives and Rainforest in Borneo”

    MD and Founder of Health in Harmony, Kinari Webb, shares her insights on her organisation’s work improving the lives of people in the communities around Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo through increased and affordable health care, decreased logging of the park and introduction of alternative incomes sources.


  • Corinna Hawkes – “Global Food System Challenges”

    March 10, 2017
    Corinna Hawkes – “Global Food System Challenges”

    Professor Corinna Hawkes provides a broad global perspective on the central challenges for food systems, as an opening to the Food stream of the conference. From Session A1 – “Global Food System Challenges”


  • Annie Quick – “Equality and Sustainability: Where does the UK stand?”

    January 31, 2017
    Annie Quick – “Equality and Sustainability: Where does the UK stand?”

    Annie Quick at Healthy Planet Better World – "Equality and Sustainability: Where does the UK stand?"Watch this video on YouTube Annie Quick, lead for Wellbeing and Inequality at the New […]


  • Milja Fenger & Samuel Lee-Gammage – “Planet on a plate: Interconnected impacts of our global food system”

    January 31, 2017
    Milja Fenger & Samuel Lee-Gammage – “Planet on a plate: Interconnected impacts of our global food system”

    From Session A1 – “Global Food System Challenges”


  • David Powell – “Flowers, elephants & conflicts: Kenya’s progress on inequality & sustainability”

    January 24, 2017
    David Powell – “Flowers, elephants & conflicts: Kenya’s progress on inequality & sustainability”

    David Powell at Healthy Planet Better World – "Kenya's progress on inequality & sustainability"Watch this video on YouTube Environment programme lead David Powell discusses a partnership between the New Economic […]


  • John Lanchbery – “The Paris Agreement: game changer or more hot air?”

    January 23, 2017
    John Lanchbery – “The Paris Agreement: game changer or more hot air?”

    John Lanchbery at Healthy Planet – "The Paris Agreement: game changer or more hot air?"Watch this video on YouTube John Lanchbery is the Principal Advisor on climate change at the […]


  • Hugh Grant-Peterkin – “Groups under Pressure” & follow-up discussion

    January 9, 2017
    Hugh Grant-Peterkin – “Groups under Pressure” & follow-up discussion

    Hugh Grant-Peterkin considers how psychotherapeutic thinking can help us understand our response to climate change; and opens up the session to a group discussion.


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