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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 […]
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Climate Science for Health Professionals – a presentation and discussion of the IPCC Working Group 1 report
Health professionals are not climate scientists. But climate science is of profound importance to health professionals. Global warming is already having a significant negative impact on human health; it threatens […]
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Robert Yates on Public Financing – The Key to Universal Health Coverage
[Originally posted 1.10.12 on UHCforward.com] Across the world, countries at all income levels are aspiring to the goal of universal health coverage (UHC). Hardly a week goes by without a […]
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Tax & Health Workshop
Medact hosted a workshop on Tuesday the 11th of February bringing together leading experts from the tax and health communities to discuss how Medact can educate, inform and campaign on […]
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Atoms for Peace Report Launch
Medact and the Nuclear Information Service release Atoms for Peace report at UCL. The report uncovered university links to the UK’s nuclear weapons programme. The reports findings and the ethics […]
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Atoms for Peace – the Atomic Weapons Establishment and UK universities
Medact and the Nuclear Information Service have undertaken a two-year study to investigate research links between British universities and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), which is responsible for designing and manufacturing […]
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Courtney McNamara on Tackling Obesity: Should the UK take Public Health Cues from the US
A new report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) notes that nearly a quarter of the UK population is obese, a figure of expanding waistlines which trails only the […]
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Medact releases first briefing on the science of climate change
Health professionals are not climate scientists. But climate science is of profound importance to health professionals. Global warming is already having a significant negative impact on human health; it threatens […]