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SUMMARY:Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World
DESCRIPTION:An evening celebrating the memory of Dr Martin Hartog  \n\n\n\nJoin Medact at St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace for an evening lecture from Dr Carlos Umaña. We welcome Medact members\, health workers\, students and particularly young campaigners as we reflect on campaigning for a nuclear weapons free world. \n\n\n\nThere is an increasing urgency to strengthen our campaigning movement\, and build closer connections and coalition with movements dedicated to climate justice\, anti-militarism and anti-imperialism. \n\n\n\nFollowing the lecture\, we’ll hear a discussion between Carlos and UK-based campaigners for disarmament\, chaired by Marion Birch\, on the challenges and opportunities for growing the movement for nuclear disarmament in our current political context. The evening will close with a drinks reception for attendees.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Carlos Umaña is a general practitioner\, former local health director\, and epidemiological surveillance officer with the Costa Rican Ministry of Health. Serving until recently as IPPNW co-president\, he is also on the ICAN International Steering Group. He is the current president of IPPNW Costa Rica\, founder of Artists for Peace (2014) in Costa Rica\, and president of the activist group “Peace and Diversity”. He is also the recipient of the 2018 “Alan Turing LGBTIQ Visibility Award” for Social Organization. \n\n\n\nSince 2013\, he has worked by campaigning and lobbying for awareness on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons (HINW) and support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). He has worked closely with governments as part of the Costa Rican delegation in the 2014 NPT PrepCom and the 2015 NPT Review Conference\, and has worked with the network of regional peace organisations to organise conferences and roundtables on the HINW and the TPNW.Cordelia Vesely campaigns locally\, nationally and internationally for a range of health\, gender and environmental justice issues\, including disarmament\, demilitarisation and international humanitarian law. She has just finished her term as co-director of Students for Global Health UK\, where she built student capacity in advocacy and policy making. Her work has taken her to the UN and been recognised by organisations like the IPPNW for whom she has led European sessions on human rights and peace.Jake Atkinson is a campaigner on issues related to inequality and human rights. As Senior Adviser at STOPAIDS\, he co-convened UK and global civil society alliances campaigning to improve equitable access to medicines\, protect human rights\, and improve funding to tackle infectious diseases. He was also part of the first Steering Committee of Youth for TPNW\, the global movement of young people in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons from 2021 to 2024. He currently works for Tax Justice UK with a focus on taxing the super rich and big polluters\, and on securing a bold United Nations Tax Convention.  \n\n\n\nMarion Birch has worked on public health and healthcare programmes in countries affected by armed conflict and disasters for 20 years\, principally in Sudan\, Mozambique\, Angola and Sri Lanka. In the UK she has worked as a training manager\, health advisor and consultant\, and for eight years was director of the global health charity Medact. Presently Marion teaches and examines part time at University College London (Institute for Global Health and the Global Business School for Health)\, at City St George’s (University of London)\, and at the Society of Apothecaries. She is editor of the Routledge / Taylor & Francis journal Medicine\, Conflict and Survival which is affiliated with IPPNW and their UK affiliate Medact. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn memory of Martin Hartog (1931-2023) \n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the generous donation of a founding member of Medact\, the late Dr Martin Hartog (1931–2023). Martin was the first chair of Medact and an active member of the Nuclear Weapons Group until his death in July 2023. \n\n\n\nThe horror of any use of nuclear weapons was close to Martin’s heart for many years. He was deeply involved with the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW) until it merged with the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) to form Medact in 1992. Martin served as the Chair of Medact in those early years\, and was an active member particularly with our Nuclear Weapons Group for the rest of his life. \n\n\n\nMartin felt passionately about the need to introduce and involve younger generations of campaigners in the movement for nuclear disarmament. His legacy donation to the group contributed to enabling recruitment of a project coordinator for the Don’t Bank on the Bomb! UK campaign\, and additionally supporting this public lecture. Medact is the UK affiliate of International Physicians for the  Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/nuclearweaponslecture/
LOCATION:St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace\, 78 Bishopsgate\, London\, EC2N 4AG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talks & Lectures
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SUMMARY:Autumn Concert for Peace
DESCRIPTION:Autumn Concert For Peace presented by the MPD Chamber Ensemble \n\n\n\nThe Autumn Concert for Peace’s programme is full of joy and optimism. In its blending of expressive melodies with masterly control in combining the three instruments\, Schubert’s youthful String Trio recalls Mozart’s masterpiece\, the Divertimento K 563. Three duos for clarinet and bassoon have been attributed to Beethoven\, but their origin is not completely clear. Whoever the composer\, they abound in good humour and witty interplay between the instruments; No. 2 is typical\, and contains a particularly touching slow movement. Nielsen’s music is often quirky and original; the Serenata in vano portrays a group of musicians who attempt to serenade a lady\, but when that fails\, they go home playing a jaunty tune. \n\n\n\nBeethoven’s Septet achieved immediate success – something he later resented\, when the public failed to appreciate some of his more serious and profound works. It is genial and uncomplicated\, and provides opportunities for each player to shine. The final movement ends with a breathless flurry of triplets for the violin. \n\n\n\nInterval speaker: Dr. Swee Chai Ang Co-Founder\, Medical Aid for Palestinians \n\n\n\nProgrammeSchubert String Trio in B-flat\, D 471Beethoven Duo in F for clarinet and bassoonNielsen Serenata in vanoBeethoven Septet in E-flat major\, Op. 20 \n\n\n\nStandard £20 Concession (Over 65s\, Students\, Unwaged) £15All proceeds donated to organisations in the peace movement.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/autumn-concert-for-peace-2025/
CATEGORIES:Talks & Lectures
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SUMMARY:Alternative Training on Prevent
DESCRIPTION:It is possible to create a society in which our collective safety and wellbeing are prioritised. Developing trusting\, healthy relationships between patients and health workers is essential to this work. However\, the Prevent Duty – with the government’s stated aim of identifying “vulnerability to radicalisation” – compromises all of this.  \n\n\n\nAs we’ve outlined in our work\, Prevent is a source of harm and increased marginalisation\, particularly for Muslim and racialised communities\, as well as those with mental health conditions.  \n\n\n\nSo\, why is the NHS the only healthcare system in the world with a legal obligation to engage with such a strategy? What aren’t you being told about the harms of Prevent in safeguarding training? \n\n\n\nJoin us for this series of Alternative Training on Prevent to learn more\, and find out how you can add your voice to the movement to end the Prevent Duty. Together we call for #CareNotSurvelliance! \n\n\n\nThis event is particularly aimed at people who work or are training in\, study\, or who have worked in health – though everyone from our movement for health justice\, interested in learning more\, is welcome! If you have any questions or concerns ahead of this event – feel free to email me\, sarahlasoye@medact.org.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/alternative-training-on-prevent-november/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Palestine\, Health and the Limits of Humanitarianism
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a health worker in the face of genocide? \n\n\n\nJoin us for a powerful political education webinar on Palestine and the politics of humanitarianism\, where we’ll explore the role of health workers in confronting the ongoing genocide in Gaza – and the complicity of the British state in that violence. \n\n\n\nThrough this conversation\, we’ll cut through the depoliticised narratives often used to obscure the reality of Israel’s settler-colonial project\, and instead confront the deliberate destruction of Gaza’s health system\, the use of starvation as a weapon of war\, and the urgent need for international solidarity. \n\n\n\nFor this online event\, we’ll hear from health workers and organisers committed to naming the violence\, challenging the limits of humanitarianism and standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to liberation. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\nLayth Hanbali\, community health researcher\n\n\n\nGhassan Abu-Sittah\, trauma and reconstructive surgeon\n\n\n\nHannah Caller\, community paediatrician \n\n\n\nJames Smith\, emergency physician\n\n\n\n\nHost: Rhiannon Mihranian Osborne\, foundation doctor and member of Health Workers for a Free Palestine \n\n\n\nThis event is especially valuable for health workers\, but it’s open to everyone – so please share widely!This is part of Medact’s Learning for Action series that aims to equip us with the knowledge and skills we need to win a more just world.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/palestine-health-and-the-limits-of-humanitarianism/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251117T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251117T200000
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SUMMARY:Medact New Joiners meeting: November 2025
DESCRIPTION:Have you joined Medact any time in the last twelve months? Are you not yet involved in your closest local group or one of our central campaigns or research network? \n\n\n\nWelcome to our movement of health workers for health justice! We’d love to meet you at our next New Joiners meeting. This will be a friendly\, informal and interactive session and an opportunity to get to know us and let us get to know you.  \n\n\n\nSome of the things that we’ll be discussing include:  \n\n\n\n\nWhat is Medact?\n\n\n\nWhat do we mean by health justice?\n\n\n\nHow do we believe change happens? \n\n\n\nWhat can it look like to organise together in the Medact movement? \n\n\n\n\nWhether you’ve just joined or joined a while ago but are yet to find your place\, please do come along and share this welcoming space with us. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions about attending\, drop our Movement Organiser Calum an email at calumbarnes@medact.org.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/newjoinersnovember/
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Nuclear Weapons Group – November Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Medact’s Nuclear Weapons Group represents the longest standing aspect of Medact’s work towards nuclear abolition\, and to address war\, armed violence and conflict as global threats to health. \n\n\n\nWe meet to provide an update on our ongoing campaigning work\, and discuss the current global political landscape as related to nuclear weapons\, militarisation and disarmament. Register below to receive the meeting link! For more info or with questions\, email Sarah: sarahlasoye@medact.org
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/nuclear-weapons-group-november/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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