Emergency Financial Protection
As a resurgence of COVID-19 cases threatens to undermine the success of the new tiered-restriction system, 12 of the UK’s leading public health organisations have written to the Prime Minister urging him to address the financial barriers currently undermining...Always Was, Always Will Be
Medact member, Dr Max Thoburn, discusses the connection between Indigenous Australian struggles for land rights and battles against health inequality.
Economic Justice & Health November briefing call
Economic Justice & Health briefing call on our Just Response to COVID-19 campaign
Economic Justice & Health Group: Research Meeting
Our Economic Justice & Health Group’s research working group will be meeting on Monday 9th November, 19:00 – 19:30. To find out how to join their online meeting, please email office@medact.org You can join our Economic Justice & Health Group by...Protecting renters now can help us minimise a second covid-19 wave
In this new piece, Daniel Carter, Medact member and research fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, discusses the need for greater protections for renters as a public health measure to prevent a second wave of COVID-19. The piece is also...Daniel Carter: Protecting renters now can help us minimise a second covid-19 wave
Daniel Carter, an Epidemiologist and member of our Economic Justice & Health Group, wrote in the BMJ about why protecting renters will help us minimise the public health impact of a second wave of COVID-19.
Annual Report 2019/20
Our 2020 Annual Report provides an overview of our work and direction in the last year, including how this has pivoted in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Monthly Economic Justice Issue meeting: Housing & Income insecurity
Our monthly economic justice issue group meeting where this month we will be developing actions to address housing and income insecurity, key determinants of the unequal impact of the pandemic.
Action Call: Housing & public health ─ the eviction crisis in the time of COVID-19
Watch a recording of our Action Call with London Renters Union & Pathways where we discussed the interconnected issues of housing justice and health equity.