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Medact staff member's Great North Run
Chris Venables, Programme Officer at Medact, and two other national charity leaders, are planning to join Newcastle University’s team in the Great North Run this year. Chris will be joined […]
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Medact scholarship for two week intensive in Norway course on peace and health
Applications are now closed. Thanks to all those who applied. We will let successful candidates know in due course. Medact is offering a scholarship for up to five health students […]
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Fracking report and letter to Lancashire Council
Medact is currently producing an expert position paper on the health effects of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the UK. The report will examine the evidence on fracking: its safety, its […]
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The Austrian Pledge: Blog from the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons
by John Loretz The Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons concluded today with a major step forward for ICAN and all those States that are now ready to […]
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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 […]
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The RCPsych leads the way with their first Sustainability Summit – find out more.
On the 1st October we had the first sustainability summit run by a medical royal college in the UK. However, people continue to think that sustainability remains the remit of […]
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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 […]
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Besieging the Health Services in Gaza: A Profitable Business
Corporate Watch’s full briefing Besieging Health Services in Gaza: A Profitable Business can be downloaded for free here or order a paper copy. Even before the latest Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, which has […]
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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 […]
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Honest Accounts? Lobby the party leaders
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 […]
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Send a message to your MP: for the love of Health, Peace & Justice I care about Climate Change.
Medact is a supporter of the Climate Coalition, the UK’s largest group of people and organisations dedicated to action on climate change and its impact on health. In the run-up to […]