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Why the UK healthy community’s investments in fossil fuels are bad for health
In a new report published today, Medact and other leading health and climate NGOs argue that the UK health community must phase out its investments in the fossil fuel industry, […]
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Unhealthy Investments – fossil fuel investment and the health community
In this report Medact and other leading health and climate NGOs argue that the UK health community must phase out its investments in the fossil fuel industry, with air pollution […]
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Volunteers: Love Film? Hate Climate Change?
Hate climate change? Love film? Want to get involved in organising a film festival with Medact and Shorts on Tap? Global health charity Medact is teaming up with film-festival organisers […]
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Waking up to the planetary health emergency: let’s divest from fossil fuels.
Zoe is a Medact member. She is also part of Divest London – a network hub for the global grassroots movement pushing institutions to divest from the fossil fuel industry […]
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Healthcare and Human Rights at the Bleeding Edge – Live Stream
Thank you for your interest in the live web-stream for Healthcare and Human Rights at the Bleeding Edge – a conference organised jointly by the University of Brighton and Medact. […]
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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 […]