Statement by Medact on the arrest of Dr Şebnem Korur Fincancı
A statement on the arrest of Dr Şebnem Korur Fincancı by the Turkish authorities and their request to a court to dismiss her from her post as President of the Turkish Medical Association.
Hiroshima Day Appeal 2022
Any amount you can give this Hiroshima Day will help us to build the health movement to end war and nuclear weapons.
Why there’s no room for population arguments in our radical public health analysis
The latest, sixth edition of Global Health Watch is another excellent resource for the health justice movement. But we would like to take this opportunity to share our concerns about a couple of lines we feel hover at the edge of a dangerous discourse.
Global Health Watch 6 – in the shadow of the pandemic
Global Health Watch (GHW), now in its sixth edition, is the definitive alternative voice on health. Published since 2003, with contributions from activists and academics from around the world, GHW6 integrates rigorous analysis of the social, economic, political and...Pledge: Health workers against prevent
Our primary objective as health workers is the duty of care to the patient in front of us. Government policies like Prevent jeopardise this duty and consequently public health. As health workers and members of the health community, our duty of care is to challenge any and all attempts at making caring professions into an arm of the Home Office or police.
Winter Appeal 2021
In the last year, THOUSANDS of health workers took action for climate justice with Medact. We brought the health voice for climate justice to the COP26 climate talks, and to streets in towns and cities across the UK. Now we need your help to support even more health workers to organise for climate and health justice in 2022.
The Public Health Case Against the Policing Bill
This briefing argues that the PCSC Bill’s expansion of police power and prisons will in fact harm public health
Play the health card — the case for climate & health justice at the UN Climate Talks
‘Play the health card the case for climate & health justice at the UN Climate Talks’ was written to lay out the reasoning behind the demands of the Health for a Green New Deal campaign in the run up to the COP26 UN Climate Talks in Glasgow in November...Serious violence measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill undermine public health
A briefing focusing on the risks of harm associated with the proposed Serious Violence Duty (SVD) and Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs) in the PCSC Bill.
Annual Report 2020/21
Our 2020 Annual Report provides an overview of our work and direction in the last year, including how this has pivoted in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Medact & nuclear power: considering our position
Medact consultation briefing The climate crisis is the single biggest threat to public health. Medact has called for the UK to transition to a zero-carbon economy by 2030 as part of a bold Green New Deal but has no declared policy position on the extent to which...Hiroshima Day Appeal 2021
On the 76th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, our call is as clear as ever: we need beds not bombs.