BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Medact - ECPv6.6.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Medact X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.medact.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Medact REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20140330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20141026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20150329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20151025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20180101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240924T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240924T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20240801T112313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T142728Z UID:33878-1727200800-1727209800@www.medact.org SUMMARY:AGM 2024 & Panel Discussion - Building solidarity movements and demanding health justice amid poly-crisis DESCRIPTION:The AGM is our yearly opportunity to come together and explore the overall running of Medact and to bring together members old and new from the UK and beyond. In addition to essential governance matters\, we’re excited this year to be hosting a panel discisson: \n\n\n\n\nPanel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe panel discussion will be followed by our AGM\, where you’ll hear about successes and reflections from the last year of work across the Medact movement\, an update on our organisational finances\, and have a chance to vote in Trustee elections. \n\n\n\nEveryone is welcome to join the meeting\, but you must be a member to vote. If you would like to get involved in running Medact\, why not join as a member today? \n\n\n\nSubmitting motions\n\n\n\nThe deadline for motion submissions has passed. \n\n\n\nElection of Trustees \n\n\n\nThe deadline for Trustee applications has passed. \n\n\n\nLogistics\n\n\n\nWe are hosting this year’s AGM online via Zoom. Register to let us know you are coming below\, and provide any access requirements you may have. We will share the agenda as soon as it is finalised. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker bios\n\n\n\nChairs: \n\n\n\nAnuj Kapilashrami is an interdisciplinary social scientist\, academic activist\, and Professor in Global Health Policy and Equity in the School of Health & Social Care\, and chair of Medact’s Board. Her current work focuses on advancing an intersectional approach to examining health inequalities and structural determinants of health and well-being. She has long been involved in People’s Health Movement (PHM) in India and the UK\, formerly as Chair of PHM Scotland where she led the first public hearing on social determination of mental health and the development of people’s health manifesto for Scotland.  \n\n\n\nKamran Abbasi is a doctor\, journalist\, editor and broadcaster. Following five years in hospital medicine\, working in various medical specialties such as psychiatry and cardiology\, he moved into senior editorial roles at the British Medical Journal from 1997 to 2005. He returned to The BMJ in his role as executive editor for content\, leading the journal’s strategic growth internationally\, digitally\, and in print. Kamran was made Editor in chief of the BMJ in December 2021. \n\n\n\nPanelists: \n\n\n\nGuppi Bola is a senior economic strategist\, previous Interim-Director of Medact and formerly Chair of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants. In 2020 she explored themes of planetary dysregulation\, illness and oppression\, and their intersections with the economy for Common Wealth using her 15 years of experience in climate and public health organising. More recently\, she has spent the past five years establishing Decolonising Economics\, alongside her partner in crime Noni Makuyana. \n\n\n\nRhiannon Mihranian is doctor\, organiser\, and researcher focused on health justice as a tool for radical systems change. Her work focuses on environmental justice\, anti-colonialism\, and re-imagining health systems. \n\n\n\nMartin Drewry is CEO of Health Poverty Action (HPA) – an international NGO part of the People’s Health Movement\, and ally of Medact. HPA works in 15 countries\, with 400 staff mostly from the marginalised communities they serve. A background in Peace Studies\, Martin played key roles in several large coalition campaigns. \n\n\n\nDr. Inga Blum is a neurologist from Hamburg\, Germany currently specializing in family medicine. She joined IPPNW as a medical student with an interest in global health and justice and got involved in ICAN at its founding at the IPPNW World Congress in Helsinki in 2006. In her view the abolition of nuclear weapons is not only an urgent necessity because of the acute danger nuclear weapons pose for global survival but likewise a great chance to shift international security policies from being based on the threat of mutual annihilation to a human security system based on cooperation. Having witnessed the constant failure of disarmament conferences as a member of IPPNW Delegations she initiated a study on attitudes towards nuclear weapons among political decision-makers at the University of Hamburg. She has conducted numerous workshops and delivered speeches with a special focus on motivating the next generation to get active for nuclear disarmament and is active in promoting the Ban Treaty in Germany. She served on the board of the German section of IPPNW from 2013 to 2021 and has started the annual IPPNW Summer Camp to protest against the stationing of NATO nuclear weapons in Büchel\, Rhineland-Palatinate. URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-agm-2024/ CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stat.medact.org/wp-uploads/2024/07/Dark.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240703T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240703T194500 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20240523T161550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240627T151004Z UID:33428-1720031400-1720035900@www.medact.org SUMMARY:From Fuel Poverty to the Just Transition: How Health Workers Can Join the Fight to Win DESCRIPTION:Our homes are making us sick\, shortening lives and stealing children’s futures. Join us this July for two online gatherings\, where we will learn about how and why our homes have become sites of illness\, and the political solutions towards reclaiming the relationship between homes and health. \n\n\n\nMillions of people in the UK live in homes that are cold\, damp\, and mouldy. We can’t afford our energy bills\, our houses are poorly insulated\, and our government continues to rely on dirty\, expensive fossil fuels. While people get sick\, energy and fossil fuel companies are raking in record profits.  \n\n\n\nCold and damp homes cost thousands of lives every year. This is the direct result of political choices—putting profit for shareholders and landlords above everyone’s right to live in a safe\, warm home.  \n\n\n\nWe know the solutions. As our Public Health Case for a Green New Deal stated loud and clear: we need quality homes for all\, fair access to energy\, and a rapid just transition to cheap\, renewable energy.  \n\n\n\nAt this online gathering\, we’ll hear from speakers on how fossil fuels are powering the crisis of cold and damp homes\, how mass insulation of homes and reform of our energy system is central to a just transition\, and how organising in solidarity with tenants and communities builds power to force change.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll share the tools that you need to learn\, pressure decision makers\, and build the health voice alongside communities—fighting to win healthy homes for all.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers at the event will include: \n\n\n\n\nSimon from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition & Warm This Winter campaign—EFPC is a broad group of anti-poverty\, environmental\, health and housing charities\, trade unions and campaigners\n\n\n\nStuart Bretherton from Fuel Poverty Action—which campaigns to protect people from fuel poverty. We challenge rip-off energy companies and unfair policies that leave people to endure cold homes. We take action for warm\, well-insulated homes and clean and affordable energy\, under the control of people and communities\, not private companies\n\n\n\nRepresentative from Living Rent—based in Scotland\, Living Rent is a mass-membership organisation of low-middle income renters\, working and fighting together to win concrete improvements to our daily lives and put political and economic power back where it belongs\n\n\n\nScott McAulay from Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) and Anthropocene Architecture School\n\n\n\nDr Isobel Braithwaite\, Medact member Public Health Doctor—currently doing research on Housing and Health\, Isobel has worked as a medical doctor and on public health issues including climate change and extreme weather\, air pollution and mental health\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHomes should be a place of comfort\, health and security. Instead\, across the UK\, homes have become sites of illness. They are rendered cold and damp by poor insulation and sky-high energy prices. They are insecure due to unaffordable rents\, evictions\, and poor-quality housing. \n\n\n\nCold\, unaffordable and insecure homes are no accident. They are the symptoms of a political system that produces mass illness and deepens inequalities in both health and wealth.  The root causes are political—and this means the solutions are too. \n\n\n\nAt these online gatherings\, together we will gain the tools we need to take action as health workers. Join the fight to win healthy homes for all\, as part of the wider struggles for climate\, housing and economic justice.  \n\n\n\nIn the run up to the general election & beyond we intend to get organised\, fight for healthy homes\, and win.  URL:https://www.medact.org/event/healthy-homes-gathering1/ CATEGORIES:Launches,Talks & Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://stat.medact.org/wp-uploads/2024/05/Peach.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230630T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230630T130000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20230626T154109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T154304Z UID:30853-1688126400-1688130000@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Don’t Bank on the Bomb Scotland Day of Action DESCRIPTION:Don’t Bank on the Bomb Scotland is a network of organisations campaigning for Scottish financial institutions and public bodies to divest from the companies that are involved in the production and development of nuclear weapons. The network is organising a Day of Action on Friday June 30th. \n\n\n\nThis Day of Action will be focussed on keeping up the pressure on the Royal Bank of Scotland to end its support for companies involved in the production and development of nuclear weapons. \n\n\n\nIt was reported that in January 2021\, the NatWest group—which is RBS is a part—had 2.3 billion pounds in outstanding loans or underwriting activities in seven companies heavily involved in the nuclear weapons industry. \n\n\n\nYou can organise a stall or protest outside your local branch\, or come down to planned stalls in Glasgow (Royal Bank of Scotland\, Gordon Street) or Edinburgh (Royal Bank of Scotland\, Nicholson Square). Both are running from 12noon to 1pm. Anyone is welcome to come along\, even for a short time\, to hold a placard or help put out hand leaflets! \n\n\n\nIf you’d like more information\, support in setting up a stall or to receive leaflets\, email Arthur West of DBoTBS. URL:https://www.medact.org/event/dont-bank-on-the-bomb-scotland-action/ CATEGORIES:Actions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20220419T111012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T105645Z UID:26592-1653937200-1653942600@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Global Health Watch 6 Launch DESCRIPTION:Global Health Watch 6 Launch Event – 30 May 2022Watch this video on YouTube\n\n\n7PM – 8:30PM BST \n\n\n\nJoin us to celebrate the publication of the sixth edition of Global Health Watch\, the definitive alternative voice on health compiled by activists and academics from around the world. \n\n\n\nOrder your discounted copy from Medact \n\n\n\nWe’ll hear from speakers who contributed to this essential volume\, which integrates rigorous analysis with stories of struggle and hope for radical transformation\, at this once-in-a-generation moment of focus on the issue of health justice. \n\n\n\nSpeakers include: \n\n\n\n\nDr Chiara Bodini\, co-editor of GHW\n\n\n\nMembers of the Medact Research Network: Roman Gnaegi\, Catia Confortini and Michael Orgel\n\n\n\nDr Annabel Sowemimo\, sexual and reproductive health doctor and founder of Decolonising Contraception\n\n\n\nDr Lauren Paremoer\, senior lecturer in the Political Studies Department at the University of Cape Town and member of PHM South Africa\n\n\n\nRhiannon Osborne\, medical student\, organiser with Health for a Green New Deal and Stop Cambo\, and member of People’s Health Movement UK.\n\n\n\n\nGlobal 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 environmental determinants of health with stories of struggle and hope for radical transformation. \n\n\n\nThe book has been co-produced by People’s Health Movement\, Medact\, Third World Network\, Health Poverty Action\, Medico International\, ALAMES\, Viva Salud and Sama. \n\n\n\nWe’re pleased to hold this event in collaboration with Health Poverty Action\, People’s Health Movement UK and People’s Health Movement Scotland—please check out their work! \n\n\n\nThis event will be held on Zoom\, but we are encouraging people to come together to watch and discuss the event in person\, if you feel comfortable. \n\n\n\nMedact is holding an in-person gathering to watch the event\, so check the box when you register if you want to join us at our office in Hoxton. \n\n\n\n[Registration has now closed] URL:https://www.medact.org/event/ghw6-launch/ LOCATION:Medact Office\, The Brick Yard\, 28 Charles Square\, London\, N1 6HT\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Launches,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2022/04/GHW6-event-graphic-v2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T210000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20220414T100535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T100647Z UID:26738-1651174200-1651179600@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Medact Scotland Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:What’s going on in Scotland? Please come to our online meeting to find out and to share ideas! New members are very welcome. We’ll have some exciting updates from across Medact: \n\nReem Abu-Hayyeh\, Campaign and Policy Lead on peace and security\, will give an overview of the role and mission of Medact\,\nLong-time member Michael Orgel will talk about the work of the Nuclear Weapons Group and Don’t Bank on the Bomb\,\nClaire Goughan will discuss the group’s climate work and upcoming actions\, and \nSian Ashby will share info about the Glasgow’s Greener Practice group.\n\nThere will be time to talk about the in-person meeting we’re planning in the autumn to connect with other Scottish health activists and health organisations and encourage them to help progress our interconnected work. We’ll hear from Carey Lunan\, GP and previously chair of the College of GPs in Scotland. \nIf you’re involved with another health organisation that you think should be invited in the autumn\, please let us know! \n[Registration has now closed] URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-scotland-group-meeting-3/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2022/04/Medact-Scotland-Group.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220222T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220222T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20220221T110424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220221T110624Z UID:25934-1645558200-1645561800@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Medact Scotland group meeting DESCRIPTION:Medact Scotland will be meeting to discuss ideas for climate actions and other work in 2022! \nContact scotland@medact.org for joining details. URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-scotland-group-meeting-2/ LOCATION:Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2013/12/scotland.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210722T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210722T210000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20210708T162244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210708T170237Z UID:23619-1626982200-1626987600@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Health Action at COP26 ─ Planning Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join Medact Scotland for this interactive meeting to build plans for health workers and students looking to take action at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow this November! \n[Registration has now closed] URL:https://www.medact.org/event/health-action-at-cop26-planning-meeting-22-july/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2021/07/ScotlandCOP26planning26July.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210607T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210607T210000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20210527T080058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210610T124437Z UID:23260-1623094200-1623099600@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Health action at COP26 ─ planning meeting DESCRIPTION:Join Medact Scotland for this interactive meeting to build plans for health workers and students looking to take action at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow this November! \nPlease note this event is set to start at 7.30pm ─ not 7pm as previously listed. Apologies for this mistake! \n[Registration has now closed] URL:https://www.medact.org/event/health-action-at-cop26-planning-meeting/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2021/05/healthactionatcop26.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210517T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210517T210000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20210427T103012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T103012Z UID:22973-1621279800-1621285200@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Medact Scotland: Meeting DESCRIPTION:Our Scotland Group will be meeting online on Monday 17th May from 7.30pm to 9.00pm. \nTo RSVP/find out more email: scotland@medact.org URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-scotland-meeting-3/ CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2013/12/scotland.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210424T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210424T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20210414T125715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210415T121904Z UID:22785-1619281800-1619287200@www.medact.org SUMMARY:‘Building the Health Movement for Climate Justice’ at From The Ground Up II: Taking Action DESCRIPTION:Are you a health worker or health student wanting to take action at COP 26? Join us for this interactive session to build the health movement for climate justice.\n‘Building the Health Movement for Climate Justice is co-organised by Medact\, Race & Health\, The People’s Health Movement (PHM) Environment & Health Circle\, PHM UK\, PHM Scotland\, Health for Future and Students for Global Health as part of the COP 26 Coalition’s second global gathering – From the Group Up II: Taking Action. \nThis session will build upon the ‘Why Health Justice means Climate Justice’ session at the first From the Ground Up event where we explored how public health can be a powerful way to address the roots of health and climate injustice. ‘Building the Health Movement for Climate Justice’ will be a workshop to envision how the health community can build power and organise for action before\, at and after COP26. \nThe workshop’s vision for action at COP26 is to organise a People’s Health Hearing that bears witness to the public health impacts of extractive industries and the systems driving climate breakdown and health inequities. It will be a space to connect to people’s struggles and set out a vision for intersectional\, transformative climate justice. At From the Ground Up II: Taking Action Now\, this will be the start of collectively organising for a People’s Health Hearing and taking action as the health community at COP 26. \nRegister via EventBrite URL:https://www.medact.org/event/building-the-health-movement-for-climate-justice-at-from-the-ground-up-ii-taking-action/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2021/04/FTGUP2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210422T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210422T210000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20210326T162951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210326T165824Z UID:22498-1619119800-1619125200@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Scottish Elections 2021: Glasgow Climate and Health Hustings DESCRIPTION:On 6th May\, Scotland goes to the polls. The outcome of the elections will determine the path that Scotland takes post-COVID. \nAs the host of the COP26 climate talks this November\, the city of Glasgow will be at the centre of a global discussion concerning the health of people and planet. It is crucial that we take this opportunity to promote a vision of a post-COVID recovery that both tackles the climate crisis and supports those most impacted by the crises we face. \nJoin us on international Earth Day for our special election hustings\, as healthcare workers in Glasgow grill candidates in the upcoming Scottish elections on their plans for a just and green recovery post-COVID! \n[Registration has now closed] URL:https://www.medact.org/event/scottish-elections-2021-glasgow-climate-and-health-hustings/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:External,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2021/03/scottishclimatehealthhustings.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210301T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210301T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20210225T185006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T185151Z UID:21861-1614627000-1614630600@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Medact Scotland: Spring Planning Meeting DESCRIPTION:Now that spring is springing\, Medact Scotland will be meeting to discuss their ideas and plans for the next few months. \nItems on the agenda include ICAN and the ICAN Cities Appeal\, Don’t Bank on the Bomb (DBOTB)\, the COP26 coalition\, Green General Practice and the Scottish Health Green New Deal group. \nTo join the meeting or get involved in the group\, please email Lesley: scotland@medact.org URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-scotland-spring-planning-meeting/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2013/12/scotland.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210208T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210208T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20210204T161154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210204T161732Z UID:21712-1612810800-1612816200@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Health for a Green New Deal Scotland - planning meeting DESCRIPTION:If you’re a health worker or student based in Scotland interested in campaigning for a just & green recovery\, join us for our planning meeting on Monday 8th February at 7pm\, where we will be discussing potential ways to influence candidates in the upcoming Scottish Parliament elections in May. \nFor more info please email Rob – robabrams@medact.org URL:https://www.medact.org/event/health-for-a-green-new-deal-scotland-planning-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2020/10/scothgndsesh.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201216T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201216T200000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20201209T114659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201209T114659Z UID:21400-1608143400-1608148800@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Health For Green New Deal Scotland: Meeting DESCRIPTION:Our Health For A Green New Deal Scotland Group will be meeting online on Wednesday 16th December\, 6.30pm-8.00pm. \nTo find out how to join the online meeting please get in contact with us. URL:https://www.medact.org/event/health-for-green-new-deal-scotland-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2020/10/scothgndsesh.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201124 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20201117T145649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T103045Z UID:21128-1606089600-1606175999@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Launch Day: Health Letter on a Just & Green Recovery for Scotland DESCRIPTION:As we build back from the Covid-19 pandemic\, it is vital that we prioritise health and wellbeing. A recovery program must set us on the right track to tackle the biggest challenge of our generation\, climate change. \n\n\n\nOn Monday 23rd\, we are launching a letter from the Scottish health community to the First Minister calling on her government to tackle both the climate and Covid crises with an ambitious Green New Deal that invests in jobs and infrastructure. \n\n\n\nJoin us on the day to help amplify the letter to a wider audience. RSVP to receive the action guide containing draft social media posts and emails that you can use to get more sign-ons! \n\n\n[Registration has now closed] URL:https://www.medact.org/event/launch-day-health-letter-on-a-just-green-recovery-for-scotland/ CATEGORIES:Actions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2020/11/ScotLetter-leftalign.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201026T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201026T210000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20200924T161111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T102608Z UID:20889-1603740600-1603746000@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Scotland Group: Meeting DESCRIPTION:Our Scotland Group will be meeting on Monday 26th October at 7.30pm. \n\n\n\nIf you would like to find out how to join the online meeting\, please sign up below for email updates from Medact Scotland. URL:https://www.medact.org/event/scotland-group-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2013/12/scotland.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201022T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201022T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20201012T132317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T152836Z UID:20927-1603393200-1603398600@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Planning Session ─ Health for a Green New Deal Scotland DESCRIPTION:At the start of September\, the Scottish government announced some commitments to investing in a green recovery. While this announcement was welcome\, it was just a first step. The Scottish government now needs to turn its words into action and ramp up its plans for creating green jobs and infrastructure. \nBetween 4th-11th November\, Friends of the Earth Scotland are organising a week of action\, including a virtual lobby of MSPs\, calling on Holyrood to implement a just & green recovery from Covid-19. \nJoin us for our planning session to get involved in building a plan to mobilise the health community for a Green New Deal in Scotland! \n[Registration has now closed] URL:https://www.medact.org/event/planning-session-%e2%94%80-health-for-a-green-new-deal-scotland/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2020/10/scothgndsesh.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201005T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201005T194500 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20200921T144456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200921T144456Z UID:20873-1601922600-1601927100@www.medact.org SUMMARY:A Green New Deal for Scotland ─ how do we mobilise the health community? DESCRIPTION:At the start of September\, Nichola Sturgeon sparked excitement when she announced proposals to introduce a green jobs guarantee. However\, despite the rhetoric\, the Scottish government is yet to fully commit with concrete details of what this guarantee will mean. \nAs we build back from Covid-19\, we have the chance to create a fairer and greener society that prioritises health and wellbeing. \nIn the run up to next year’s COP26 in Glasgow\, Scotland has the opportunity to set an example to the world by investing in a transformative Green New Deal. \nAs health workers and students\, we have a vital role to play in putting pressure on Holyrood to bring about the changes we need to safeguard public health and end the climate crisis. \nJoin us for this interactive session as we begin creating a plan to mobilise the health community in Scotland for a Green New Deal. \n[Registration has now closed] URL:https://www.medact.org/event/a-green-new-deal-for-scotland-%e2%94%80-how-do-we-mobilise-the-health-community/ CATEGORIES:Online,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.medact.org/app/uploads/2020/09/GND-scotland-action-call.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200518T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200518T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20200428T154257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T160026Z UID:19997-1589830200-1589833800@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Medact Scotland: Meeting DESCRIPTION:[three_fourth] If you work or have worked in health and you’re based in Scotland\, you’re very welcome to join this Medact Scotland meeting. We will be discussing the links between COVID-19\, militarism\, climate and health\, and the next steps in the campaign for nuclear disarmament. \nThe meeting will take place online and please email scotland@medact.org for details on how to join. URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-scotland-meeting-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200414T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200414T200000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20200330T114949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200330T114949Z UID:19878-1586889000-1586894400@www.medact.org SUMMARY:People’s Health Movement Webinar: 'A global perspective on CoVID-19' DESCRIPTION:As CoVID 19 challenges our way of living\, the People’s Health Movement UK/Scotland\, Medact\, Health Poverty Action are launching a webinar series to explore the challenges that coronavirus has highlighted within health systems\, public health\, and society at large\, both in the UK and globally. \nFront line activists\, academics\, public health experts\, journalists\, will join us to engage in an alternative discussion looking at the current situation from a social justice lens\, denouncing the problems\, and advocating for the solutions. \nTuesday 14th April\, 6.30 pm GMT (‘A global perspective on CoVID-19’)\, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uZEpfu6urjgjvbMdWhwiViy-MqxOCNPX3w URL:https://www.medact.org/event/peoples-health-movement-webinar-a-global-perspective-on-covid-19/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200407 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200408 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20200327T094430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T104738Z UID:19868-1586217600-1586303999@www.medact.org SUMMARY:People's Health Movement Webinar for World Health Day DESCRIPTION:As CoVID 19 challenges our way of living\, the People’s Health Movement UK/Scotland\, Medact\, Health Poverty Action are launching a webinar series to explore the challenges that coronavirus has highlighted within health systems\, public health\, and society at large\, both in the UK and globally. It coincides with World Health Day\, which sees PHM circles around the world campaign for Health for all\, Now! \nWe will discuss the socio-political determinants of this pandemic\, including the most pressing issues at the interface with the community\, vulnerable populations\, the hostile environment\, the\nprivatisation of NHS\, and much more. \nFront line activists\, academics\, public health experts\, journalists\, will join us to engage in an alternative discussion looking at the current situation from a social justice lens\, denouncing the problems\, and advocating for the solutions. \nThe webinars will be held on: \n\nTuesday 7th April 6.30 pm GMT (‘A UK perspective on CoVID-19’)\, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uZAodeiurDspztDackmWGiwihhWpePlbWg\nTuesday 14th April\, 6.30 pm GMT (‘A global perspective on CoVID-19’)\, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uZEpfu6urjgjvbMdWhwiViy-MqxOCNPX3w\n\nThere is also a Facebook event for the webinar series. \n  URL:https://www.medact.org/event/peoples-health-movement-webinar-for-world-health-day/ CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200323T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200323T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20200212T174454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200320T145435Z UID:19286-1584991800-1584995400@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Medact Scotland: Meeting DESCRIPTION:Medact Scotland’s next meeting will be a virtual meeting. You can join us by clicking the link: meet.google.com/cds-iqow-izy \nTo RSVP/find out more email: scotland@medact.org URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-scotland-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200304T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200304T210000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20200212T180937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T180937Z UID:19291-1583346600-1583355600@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Medact Scotland: Co-ordinator Lesley Morrison speaking at RCGP event DESCRIPTION:Medact Scotland Co-ordinator Lesley Morrison is speaking at the West of Scotland RCGP IPCN event in Glasgow on 4th March: The Climate Crisis: A Health Emergency URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-scotland-co-ordinator-lesley-morrison-speaking-at-rcgp-event/ LOCATION:The Pearce Institute\, 840-860 Govan Road\, Glasgow\, G51 3UU\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190228T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190228T213000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20190122T170642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190122T171526Z UID:17363-1551382200-1551389400@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Medact Scotland Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next Medact Scotland meeting on Thursday 28th February at 7.30 in the Citizen M Hotel in Glasgow.  \nPlease get in touch with Lesley if you have any questions – Scotland@medact.org URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-scotland-group-meeting/ LOCATION:Citizen M Hotel\, Glasgow\, 60 Renfrew St\,\, Glasgow\, G23BW\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180921T184500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180922T230000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20180817T164250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180912T213503Z UID:16907-1537555500-1537657200@www.medact.org SUMMARY:Food for Thought DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dinner and speaker event organised in conjuction with Medact Glasgow and Medact Scotland. This will be a fantastic opportunity for Medact members\, supporters and newcomers from all around the UK to swap ideas and get to know each other. \nWe are delighted to have Director of Nourish Scotland Pete Ritchie join us to speak on the role of health workers in campaigning for food justice in Scotland. After this we will sit down for a dinner provided by local caterers Milk\, and hear from Medact members from around the UK about the work they have been doing this year. \nRegistration is £10\, which includes dinner. We are also looking into the possibility of some traditional Scottish music to finish the evening! \n  \n[Registration has now closed] \nDirections to Kinning Park Complex\nThe Kinning Park complex is conveniently located immediately adjacent to Kinning Park Underground station which can be reached coming from either Buchanan St [ for Queen St mainline] or St Enoch’s [for Central station]. URL:https://www.medact.org/event/glasgow-dinner/ LOCATION:Kinning Park Complex\, 43 Cornwall St\, Glasgow\, G41 1BA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks & Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180921T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180922T180000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20180725T123425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180912T224044Z UID:16824-1537547400-1537639200@www.medact.org SUMMARY:AGM Weekend 2018 DESCRIPTION:Medact’s 2018 Annual General Meeting will be held in Glasgow on the afternoon of 21st September. \nThe AGM will be followed by a dinner and speaker event organised with Medact Glasgow and Medact Scotland. This will be a fantastic opportunity for Medact members and supporters from all around the UK to swap ideas and get to know each other. \nThe following day\, on 22nd September\, we’ll be joining people from across the world for the ‘Nae Nukes Anywhere’ peace rally at the Faslane Nuclear Base – home to the UK’s Trident submarines. We’ll be providing transport from Glasgow for anyone who’d like to come. \nYou can register for any or all of the three events using the button below: \n\nClick here to register \nPapers for the AGM are now available below. \nSchedule\nFriday 21st September @ the Kinning Park Complex\, Glasgow\nAGM 2018\, 4.30 – 6pm\nThis is the main business meeting of Medact\, including reports on the year\, election of new Board members\, and voting on any motion proposals. All are welcome but only Medact members are eligible to vote. \nTalk & dinner\, 6.45 – 11pm\nIn the evening we are delighted to have Director of Nourish Scotland Pete Ritchie joining us to talk about Nourish’s work on food poverty\, and opportunities for health professionals to get involved with work on this issue. \nFollowing Pete’s talk we will sit down for dinner provided by local caterers Milk; and also hear more from Medact members about other areas of work this year\, and the significance of the demonstration on the Saturday. \nAfter dinner there will be an opportunity to enjoy some traditional Scottish music. \nSaturday 22nd September @ Faslane\, home of the UK’s Trident nuclear submarines\nOn the Saturday thousands we will join thousands of anti-nuclear campaigners from across the world in the International Peace March at Faslane. \nTransport will be provided for those that want it from central Glasgow\, leaving mid-morning for the march which starts at noon. \nAGM Papers\nAGM papers are now available to download as follows: \n\n\nMedact AGM 2018 – Agenda\n\n\nMedact AGM 2017 – Draft Minutes\n\n\nMedact Statement of Financial Activities for the period 1st Feb 2017 to 31st Jan 2018\n\n\nWe are delighted to announce the following nominations for election to the Board of Trustees: \nDr Margaret Jackson\nI am a GP in rural North Yorkshire in a small but busy practice with a large elderly population. I have been a partner for twenty three years. I am also a GP trainer and coordinate the medical student (Hull York Medical School) teaching in the practice. With psychotherapy colleagues I have been facilitating pioneering group work with people with long term conditions in order to enable people to be better able to take control of their health and well-being. I have been collaborating with researchers at Hull University on this work. \nI have all my adult life felt strongly about social justice and environmental sustainability. Over the past few years\, and in particular since attending the Medact conference “Healthy Planet\, Better World” in 2016\, I have become much clearer that I need to become active in the movement towards a fairer and more sustainable world. My colleague Angela Harvey and I launched Yorkshire Medact last year and have been involved in anti-fracking campaigns in Yorkshire and Lancashire. \nNow 55\, I am able to devote more of my energies to working with these issues as I reduce the time that I devote to the practice. I am keen to become more involved in Medact’s work as I see Medact as a far-sighted organisation that ‘punches above its weight’ in terms of what it achieves for its size. I believe that working with such a broad remit (peace and security\, climate and environment\, economic justice and human rights) crucially enables the links to be made between all these areas. For all these reasons I would be very interested in joining the Medact board. \nLesley Morrison\nLesley Morrison is a retired GP\, still involved  in medical student teaching\, who has been an active member of Medact since its inception and a member of MCANW prior to that. She has always felt passionately about the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons  and about the importance of Medact’s work to show that disarmament\, development\, human rights and concern for the environment are inextricably interlinked. \nLiving just south of Edinburgh\, she would represent the views of Medact Scotland. \nNeena Modi\nProfessor Neena Modi is a consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and professor of neonatal medicine at Imperial College London. She completed a three year term as president of the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in March 2018. She heads a major neonatal research programme focused on the perinatal determinants of lifelong health\, and led the development of the UK National Neonatal Research Database\, of which she is the current director. \nProfessor Modi has made many contributions to children’s services\, and has been at the forefront of reinvigorating the clinical research base of paediatrics and child health. During her career she has served\, among many other roles\, as president of the UK Neonatal Society\, president of the Academic Paediatrics Association of Great Britain and Ireland\, and chair of the British Medical Journal ethics committee. She is currently president-elect of the Medical Women’s Federation. \nKitty Mohan\nKitty is a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control based in London and Oxford. A medical doctor by background she completed Public Health training in London in March 2018 and was awarded a PhD in Epidemiology from King’s College London in 2016. \nShe is the President of the European Junior Doctor Association\, which represents the interests of 300\,000 junior doctors across Europe. She was a member of BMA Council from 2013-18\, has previously been Director of the BMA \,and was joint lead negotiator for junior doctor contract negotiations whilst Co-chair of the Junior Doctors Committee between 2013 and 2015. \nDirections to Kinning Park Complex\nThe Kinning Park complex is conveniently located immediately adjacent to Kinning Park Underground station which can be reached coming from either Buchanan St [ for Queen St mainline] or St Enoch’s [for Central station]. URL:https://www.medact.org/event/agm-2018/ LOCATION:Kinning Park Complex\, 43 Cornwall St\, Glasgow\, G41 1BA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Actions,Meetings,Talks & Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180520 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20171009T131726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T131726Z UID:15762-1526515200-1526774399@www.medact.org SUMMARY:1st World Congress on Migration\, Ethnicity\, Race and Health DESCRIPTION:Medact is supporting the 1st World Congress on Migration\, Ethnicity\, Race and Health (MERH 2018) \nThe MERH 2018 Congress is hosted by an independent\, non-profit making company working under the auspices of The University of Edinburgh\, the European Public Health Association and NHS Health Scotland.  We intend to deliver you a memorable\, affordable\, academic and social programme in one of the most spectacular cities in the world. The MERH congress will replace the 7th EUPHA Migrant and Ethnic Health Section Conference. \nCongress aims : \n\nTo improve research\, population health and health care for migrants and other discriminated-against populations\nTo bring together policy\, social science\, clinical\, social service and public health perspectives and share and transfer learning within and across countries.\nTo examine contemporary problems across the globe and debate suggested solutions\nTo Consider health effects of social\, environmental and demographic change associated with population migration\, and the effects on diseases and their causes\nTo find ways to overcome differences in concepts and terminology so the field can be understood internationally in acceptable language.\nTo provide opportunities for people to showcase their work and to meet to share experience and motivations\nTo build networks that will last beyond the Congress itself\n\nAbstract Submission and Registration is now open.  There are registration fees specifically set for those attending from low income countries as well as applications for financial support (bursaries) available. \n  URL:https://www.medact.org/event/1st-world-congress-migration-ethnicity-race-health/ LOCATION:Edinburgh International Conference Centre\, Morrison Street\, Edinburgh\, EH3 8EE\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150618T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150618T213000 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20150530T113942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T151908Z UID:12875-1434654000-1434663000@www.medact.org SUMMARY:PUBLIC MEETING Fracking in Lancashire - what are the risks to health? DESCRIPTION:On June 24\, Lancashire County Council will decide whether to allow fracking in the county.\nFracking has been banned in New York State due to the “significant public health risks”. It is also suspended in Scotland and Wales due to the high risks.\nCome to this public meeting to find out more about the risks and to quiz public health experts on this important issue.\n   \nWhere: St John’s Minister\, Preston\, PR1 3BT\nWhen: Thursday\, 18 June from 7pm – 8.30pm\n\nSpeakers:\nDavid McCoy\, Director\, Medact\nJohn Ashton\, former Special Representative for Climate Change at the Foreign Office\nOther Speakers (TBC)\n 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 URL:https://www.medact.org/event/public-meeting-fracking-lancashire-risks-health/ CATEGORIES:External END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140410 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140413 DTSTAMP:20260607T000333 CREATED:20140410T123545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170130T150504Z UID:12845-1397088000-1397347199@www.medact.org SUMMARY:2nd People's Health Assembly DESCRIPTION:This event is being run by the People’s Health Movement. For more information about PHM\, please visit www.phm-uk.org.uk. The People´s Health Movement (PHM) has its roots deep in the grassroots people’s movement and owes its genesis to many health networks and activists who have been concerned by the growing inequities in health over the last 25 years. \nBackground and Context\n The word ‘austerity’ has recently gained prominence. It is used to describe a wide range of cuts to public spending across services including welfare support\, education\, health and social care. What is often overlooked is how ‘austerity’ is a deliberate policy by the government to redistribute resources from the poor to the rich through bailout of banks\, corporate tax evasion and private finance initiatives. Austerity and its’ effects are being imposed selectively\, unevenly and unfairly across society with devastating impacts on disadvantaged groups pushing them further into poverty\, deprivation and poor health. It is also being used to justify a further expansion of privatisation\, corporate welfare and excessive profiteering – not least of all in the NHS. Whilst this is happening in various ways and at different speeds in Scotland\, England\, Wales and Northern Ireland\, it is a crisis affecting the whole of the UK. Therefore\, the political\, economic and ideological underpinnings of austerity need to be questioned and challenged. This is a priority for those working in the health sector\, and for those seeking to reverse the trend of widening health inequalities. \nWhy attend?\n – Learn more about the background to austerity measures and their impact on local and global determinants of health\, on health and related services and on health inequity in different parts of the UK. – Learn skills for movement building and activism with community and campaign groups; and strategies for challenging austerity – Dialogue and Network with organisations and individuals involved in health and social activism. – Take part in developing a People’s Health Manifesto and help build a progressive health movement to challenge austerity and exclusion throughout the UK \nClick here to download the flyer.\nFor more information and to register\, please click here. URL:https://www.medact.org/event/2nd-peoples-health-assembly/ CATEGORIES:Conferences END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR