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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200304T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200304T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190228T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190228T213000
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180520
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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
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140410
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140413
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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/
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