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Antimicrobial Resistance – the threat to health, and the need for antibiotic stewardship in the farming sector
Medact, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics would like to invite you to a day seminar on Thursday 30 October at the Royal Society […]
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Global Health Justice Lecture – Nutrition, Climate and Public Health
Global Health Justice (GHJ) is a new public lecture and discussion series organised by the London-based charity Medact and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) focusing on the socio-political determinants of health. GHJ aims to […]
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Message to the Canadian Medical Association: Leaving fossil fuels behind is not unaffordable – it is the alternative that is unaffordable.
In recent years, the UK medical establishment has come to take increasingly serious the warning of the Lancet-UCL commission that anthropogenic climate change may pose the “greatest threat to global […]
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Medact Afternoon Conference – Climate Change, Tax Justice and Health
Book your free ticket online via eventbrite by clicking here. This is an open mini-conference hosted by Queen Mary University London and Medact. It is one of several global health […]
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IPCC Briefings
The reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up under the auspices of the United Nations, represent the most authoritative scientific understanding of climate change. Three scientific working groups […]
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Fossil Free Health – Planning Meeting
In April 2014, Medact – together with our partners Healthy Planet UK – launched the ‘Fossil Free Health’ campaign. We are calling on the UK health community to divest from […]
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Climate Change – health impacts & opportunities
What does the latest IPCC report mean for human health? Medact has developed its second briefing explaining the health implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group II […]
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Climate Change: Our greatest health threat, or our greatest opportunity for better health?
Climate Change: Our greatest health threat, or our greatest opportunity for better health?Watch this video on YouTube
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BMJ Editorial: IPCC report shows the need for “radical and transformative change”
In light of the forthcoming IPCC report, an editorial in the BMJ, written by Fiona Godlee (BMJ Editor), Hugh Montgomery (UCL), Sabaratnam Arulkumaran (BMA President) and David McCoy (Medact Chair), has called […]
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Strategy Workshop: Climate and Health
Location: Medact Offices Background Medact is a London-based health charity designed to enable health professionals to act on the social, political, ecological and economic determinants of health and health inequality. […]
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Climate Science for Health Professionals – a presentation and discussion of the IPCC Working Group 1 report
Health professionals are not climate scientists. But climate science is of profound importance to health professionals. Global warming is already having a significant negative impact on human health; it threatens […]