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SUMMARY:Criminalising Distress FOI team meeting
DESCRIPTION:The FOI (“freedom of information”) team meet as part of the Medact Research Network’s current project ‘Criminalising Distress’. \n\n\n\nThe 18-month project explores the evolution and impacts of\, accountability for\, and alternatives to Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM)\, a model of mental health care involving police officers into non-emergency therapeutic interventions. \n\n\n\nFor more information about the project email Research and Policy Manager Hil Aked at hilaked@medact.org
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/criminalising-distress-foi-team-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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SUMMARY:People's health Tribunal | Tribunal de la Santé des Peuples | Tribunal de Salud de los Pueblos | المحكمة الشعبيّة للصحّة
DESCRIPTION:Following COP 27\, in May 2023\, join us for a People’s Health Tribunal. The Tribunal will hold space to listen\, in six languages\, to key struggles against extractive industries from across the African continent and Diaspora communities\, holding fossil fuel giants Shell and Total to account. We will share stories of resistance against extractivist and colonial violence and its health impacts as well as visions of justice denied by international judicial systems. The Tribunal will be spread over two sessions on May 13th and May 20th. \n\n\n\nWe will be sharing more details soon. In the meantime\, sign up below to keep up to date! \n\n\n\nAprès la COP 27\, en mai 2023\, rejoignez-nous pour un Tribunal de la santé des peuples. Le Tribunal sera un espace pour écouter\, en six langues\, les principales luttes contre les industries extractives à travers le continent africain et les communautés de la diaspora\, exigeant des comptes aux géants des combustibles fossiles Shell et Total. Nous partagerons des histoires de résistance contre la violence extractiviste et coloniale et ses impacts sur la santé\, ainsi que des visions de la justice refusée par les systèmes judiciaires internationaux. Le Tribunal sera réparti sur deux sessions\, les 13 et 20 mai. \n\n\n\nNous vous donnerons plus de détails en 2023. En attendant\, inscrivez-vous ci-dessous pour être tenu au courant! \n\n\n\nDespués de la COP 27\, en mayo de 2023\, únete a nosotros para un Tribunal de Salud de los Pueblos. El Tribunal será un espacio para escuchar\, en seis idiomas\, las principales luchas contra las industrias extractivas de todo el continente africano y de las comunidades de la diáspora\, exigiendo responsabilidad a los gigantes de los combustibles fósiles Shell y Total. Compartiremos historias de resistencia contra la violencia extractivista y colonial y sus impactos sobre la salud\, así como visiones de la justicia negada por los sistemas judiciales internacionales. El Tribunal se desarrollará en dos sesiones\, los días 13 y 20 de mayo. \n\n\n\nCompartiremos más detalles en 2023. Mientras tanto\, ¡inscríbete abajo para mantenerte al día! \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/peoples-health-tribunal-tribunal-de-la-sante-des-peuples/
CATEGORIES:External,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230522T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230522T203000
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SUMMARY:Neoliberalism\, Security and the Politics of Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:The fields of mental health hold the potential to depoliticise experiences that are deeply connected to our social\, political and economic environments. By focusing on individual conditions\, we risk disregarding those root causes\, such as poverty\, racism and oppression. \n\n\n\nMental health disciplines are not apolitical fields\, and may fail to interrogate the boundaries and limitations of medicine\, psychiatry and psychology. Spaces that should centre care and patient autonomy can double as places of producing “loyal\, low-risk and productive citizens” (The Muslim\, State and Mind). This depoliticisation of mental health disciplines is particularly relevant for racialised minorities\, like Muslims. \n\n\n\nWe’re excited to host a panel discussion with clinical psychologist\, academic and author Tarek Younis (The Muslim\, State and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia\, 2022)\, Securitisation of Health group member and trainee psychiatrist Mashal Iftikhar\, and Medact’s Research Manager Hil Aked whose current project Criminalising Distress explores the harmful impact of policing in mental health care. \n\n\n\nUsing case studies and experiences\, our panel will explore the alleged “apolitical” position of psychiatry and psychology; how psychological theories and practices can work to serve State interests and perpetuate racism and inequality; how austerity and the political economy can cause and exacerbate a population’s poor mental health; and whether the solutions to our mental health crisis can even be found in mental health spaces. They will touch on the increasing securitisation of supposed spaces of care\, and the harmful impacts to public health of pressure on providers to report and surveille their patients. \n\n\n\nWe hope to create a space of collective exploration and expansion of our understanding of individualised “mental illness” and treatments and cures beyond the boundaries of clinical pathology. We would encourage anyone interested in the research\, policy or practice of mental health\, the securitisation of health\, as well as anyone with lived experience of mental illness to attend. Following the panel discussion there will be time for audience questions. \n\n\n\nWe’re at capacity for in-person attendance. \n\n\n\nFor those who have been confirmed as attending in-person\, the venue has been changed to the Human Rights Action Centre\, 25 New Inn Yard\, London EC2A 3EA (map) just 5 minutes from Medact. \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/politics-of-mental-health/
LOCATION:Medact Office\, The Brick Yard\, 28 Charles Square\, London\, N1 6HT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Online,Talks & Lectures
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SUMMARY:Pegasus Institute’s Summer Institute in Peace\, Health and Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:We’re sharing information about this summer’s upcoming Institute in Peace\, Health and Sustainability run by McGill University and the Pegasus Institute. The Summer Institute offers courses for students interested in how migration\, conflict\, and the environment shape human health.  \n\n\n\nCourses will explore connections between larger events of the world and the health of populations and individuals. The new course “Introduction to Migration and Health” will be offered in Spanish and English and the course “Environment and Global Health” returns this year with a French language option. \n\n\n\nParticipants are encouraged to take as many courses\, across Institutes\, as fits in their schedule. A certificate of participation will be issued for each course. \n\n\n\nExplore their FAQ document or contact them.  There is also Information on pricing\, scholarships and registration.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/mcgill-summer-institute/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,External,Online,Talks & Lectures
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SUMMARY:Medact Research Network Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Medact Rights Research Network Quarterly is an online space for us to come together\, share our work\, discuss new projects\, or delve into deep discussion about research that has caught your interest.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll be welcoming two guest speakers from US-based health justice body Human Impact Partners (HIP)\, Elana Muldavin and Christine Mitchell who will be in conversation with our Economic Justice & Health campaigner Jordi. \n\n\n\nThey’ll be speaking about HIP’s new Research Code of Ethics\, which has been designed with guidance from community organisers in order to foster research that’s accountable\, responsible\, equitable\, and just to the communities it seeks to serve. Join us to talk about how Medact can do the same. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Mitchell is a research project director with the Health Instead of Punishment program at Human Impact Partners\, a national public health nonprofit based in Oakland\, CA. She is an organizer with the Boston-based DeeperThanWater Coalition and a co-author of the American Public Health Association policy statements on law enforcement violence and carceral systems. She has a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a Doctor of Science in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElana Muldavin is a senior research associate at Human Impact Partners\, where her work focuses on advancing economic security through collaborative\, community-centered research. She believes that policy advocacy\, community organizing\, and participatory research are powerful tools in service of health and racial equity. Elana holds a Master of Public Health from University of California\, Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in sociology from Occidental College. \n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? Get in touch with our Research & Policy Manager\, Hil Aked \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/mrnq-march/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230531T183000
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SUMMARY:Medact Groups Check-in
DESCRIPTION:This is a space for people active in Medact local or issue groups to connect\, to share collective learning from our organising—the challenges and successes and how we can support each other moving forward. \n\n\n\nIdeally one or more people from each group can come along and represent their group\,  and the group representative(s) don’t need to be a coordinator: anyone who is involved is welcome! \n\n\n\nAs part of the check in\, we would love for each group to spend two minutes sharing a few highlights from the last few months\, any challenges you’ve had\, and any plans you have coming up. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions or would like to chat through anything\, do get in touch with Ben Eder:  beneder@medact.org \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/groups-check-in-may/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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