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David McCoy on the Lancet Commission
The Lancet-UiO Commission on Global Governance For Health Commissioners should withdraw their recommendations and come up with better ones. The Lancet Commission on Global Governance for Health – co-organised with […]
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Climate Change – health impacts & opportunities
What does the latest IPCC report mean for human health? Medact has developed its second briefing explaining the health implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group II […]
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Climate Change: Our greatest health threat, or our greatest opportunity for better health?
Climate Change: Our greatest health threat, or our greatest opportunity for better health?Watch this video on YouTube
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BMJ Editorial: IPCC report shows the need for “radical and transformative change”
In light of the forthcoming IPCC report, an editorial in the BMJ, written by Fiona Godlee (BMJ Editor), Hugh Montgomery (UCL), Sabaratnam Arulkumaran (BMA President) and David McCoy (Medact Chair), has called […]
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Alistair Wardrope: ‘One go-to contrarian economist dissents over key climate impact report…’
The usual news venues have been making the usual noises in the build-up to the official publication of the latest UN IPCC report on the human impacts of climate change […]
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Dr Aseem Malhotra: Taking action on sugar – applying lessons from the salt reduction programme
The food industry is currently adding growing amounts of sugar to our food. Consumers are largely unaware of this, as the sugar is mostly hidden. Not just in the well-known […]
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Sally Ruane: Our health and their development: overlapping interests?
There cannot have been many occasions on which experts on health and experts on tax have come together to see how these two spheres of interest and expertise impinge upon […]
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Dr David McCoy: Universities must resist the military industrial complex
Last week, Medact wrote to the Vice Chancellors of nearly a hundred British universities. We asked them to review the ethical standards and criteria that are applied to university research […]
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Dr. Roberto DeVogli: Thatcher’s Trickle-Up Economics Made Us Sick
In this guest post, Dr. Roberto DeVogli discusses the relationship between the policy agenda of Margaret Thatcher and important social determinants of health. A parallel is drawn between Thatcher’s economic reforms and […]
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Combat and the Campus
A discussion on the ethics of university research and nuclear weapons with Jonathon Porritt, Andy Blowers, Christopher Watson, and David McCoy. Held at University College London on 12 February […]
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David Woodward – “Between the Rack and a Hot Place: Can We Reconcile Poverty Eradication and Tackling Climate Change?”
About the lecture By any reasonable definition, the majority of humanity is on the rack of poverty; and a major obstacle to its eradication is the growing threat of extreme […]