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Emergency Financial Protection

by Siddhartha Mehta | Dec 17, 2020 | Actions, Campaign Updates, Headlines, News, Economic Justice

As a resurgence of COVID-19 cases threatens to undermine the success of the new tiered-restriction system, 12 of the UK’s leading public health organisations have written to the Prime Minister urging him to address the financial barriers currently undermining...

Mitigating public health risk from evictions

by Siddhartha Mehta | Aug 20, 2020 | Actions, Campaign Updates, Headlines, Economic Justice

Sixteen of the UK’s leading public health organisations have written to Secretary of State for Housing Robert Jenrick urging him to extend the eviction ban due to be lifted Monday to avoid an evictions and homelessness crisis that could significantly contribute to an...

Health workers: come together, hold the government to account and mend our social fabric

by Siddhartha Mehta | Apr 8, 2020 | Blogs, Economic Justice

We are in the midst of a fast moving and deadly infectious disease pandemic. However, COVID-19 has come a time when society was already facing multiple epidemics in mental health, chronic disease and other infectious diseases – the result of decades of inaction...

To fight this pandemic, we must radically re-imagine public health

by Siddhartha Mehta | Mar 18, 2020 | Headlines, Sign-Ons, Economic Justice

Our public health is only as strong as our economic and social fabric.

Healthcare workers should call for a health centred budget

by Siddhartha Mehta | Mar 6, 2020 | Campaign Updates, In the News, Economic Justice

Read our Economic Justice Campaigner Siddhartha in BMJ Opinion, expanding on our case for a health centred budget in response to the findings of the Marmot 10-year review.

Marmot 2020: Health workers call for a Health and Wellbeing Budget

by Siddhartha Mehta | Feb 26, 2020 | Headlines, Sign-Ons, Economic Justice

The findings of the recent Marmot review throw into stark relief the health inequalities caused by austerity. It links choices made in our economic, social and political system to negative and avoidable health outcomes.

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