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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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Spring Appeal: Freedom From Torture
This spring, Medact is appealing for funds to support its Healthcare and Human Rights programme. We will use any money raised to campaign against the denial of healthcare for refugees and asylum seeker and stop medical complicity in torture.
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Medsin Students: Would you like to visit Kazakhstan?
Medact is offering a bursary to a Medsin student to attend a Congress in Astana, Kazakhstan in the last week of August this year. The Congress is organised by the International Physicians for […]
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David McCoy on the Lancet-UiO Commission on Global Governance For Health
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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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 […]