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  • Always Was, Always Will Be

    November 20, 2020
    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

    November 6, 2020

    Economic Justice & Health briefing call on our Just Response to COVID-19 campaign


  • Economic Justice & Health Group: Research Meeting

    November 4, 2020
    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 […]


  • Protecting renters now can help us minimise a second covid-19 wave

    September 18, 2020
    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 […]


  • Annual Report 2019/20

    September 11, 2020
    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

    September 4, 2020
    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

    September 3, 2020
    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.


  • This is an uprising, but can it be a revolution….

    August 28, 2020
    This is an uprising, but can it be a revolution….

    This piece was written during the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement. In the wake of BLM protests and the global uprising against racism during a devastating pandemic, we […]


  • Mitigating public health risk from evictions

    August 20, 2020
    Mitigating public health risk from evictions

    Sixteen of the UK’s leading public health organisations have written to Secretary of State for Housing Robert Jenrick urging him to extend the eviction ban due to be lifted Monday […]


  • Action Call: Housing & public health ─ the eviction crisis in the time of COVID-19

    August 12, 2020
    Action Call: Housing & public health ─ the eviction crisis in the time of COVID-19

    The government plans to lift its eviction ban for rental tenants on 24th August. The ensuing wave of evictions will have dire consequences for housing security and overall public health. Join us to find out what you can do to help.


  • Urgent meeting ─ organising against the end of the eviction ban

    August 7, 2020
    Urgent meeting ─ organising against the end of the eviction ban

    On the 24th of August the eviction ban will be lifted. This will have some serious repercussions on housing insecurity that translate to risks of COVID19 transmission and wider public […]


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