Mutualist New Deal or digital Big Brother?
What do we want beyond COVID-19? Tom Wakeford outlines two possible futures for the UK.
Economic Justice & Health Group ─ first meeting
Medact’s newly convened Economic Justice & Health issue group will be meeting online on Wednesday 3rd June at 6:30pm. This will be the first meeting of the new Medact issue group for Economic Justice & Health. We will establish the terms of the group;...Submission to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Medact produced a submission to the HCLG Committee on their inquiry into the Impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) on homelessness and the private rented sector. The submission is part of the work we are doing to advocate for a Just Public Health Response to the...Economic Justice & Health Group
Our Economic Justice & Health Group is a new group to develop projects to work towards an economic system that is centred on improving the wellbeing of people and the planet.
COVID-19 affects everything – more than a disease control plan, we need a manifesto
In this new piece, former Medact Director and Professor of Global Public Health David McCoy discusses the need for a much broader, whole-societal response to COVID-19.
Building Economic Justice ─ workshopping for a Just Response to the coronavirus crisis
Come join our new economic justice group as we plan how to move forward with our campaign for a Just Response to the coronavirus crisis.
Responding to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into stark relief the serious health inequalities that exist both in the UK and across the world. In response we have seen incredible kindness, and witnessed all kinds of actions to both serve our both communities immediate needs, and...Health workers: come together, hold the government to account and mend our social fabric
We are in the midst of a fast moving and deadly infectious disease pandemic. However, COVID-19 has come a time when society was already facing multiple epidemics in mental health, chronic disease and other infectious diseases – the result of decades of inaction...People’s Health Movement Webinar for World Health Day
Our campaigners Siddhartha and James will be joining this webinar on Tuesday 7th April.
Responding to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into stark relief the serious health inequalities that exist both in the UK and across the world. In response we have seen incredible kindness, and witnessed all kinds of actions to both serve our both communities immediate needs, and to tackle some of the inequalities that threaten to worsen the problem.
To fight this pandemic, we must radically re-imagine public health
Our public health is only as strong as our economic and social fabric.