Medact member Dr. Thusiyan Nandakumar outlines Sri Lanka’s militarised response to the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that it is entrenching institutionalised discrimination in the country.
An online meeting to discuss the ways that health workers can take action on issues related to the Prevent duty in the NHS.
The Securitisation of Health Group is a new group that works together toward a shift in how the concept of ‘security’ is viewed, politically and within society, to centre individual and collective health and well-being.
Junior Doctor, Bimal Khadaka, discusses the importance of strengthening the Planning and Mitigation phases of our global emergency control measures to prevent the harmful impacts of both pandemics and nuclear warfare
An online meeting to discuss the ways that health workers can take action on issues related to the Prevent duty in the NHS.
Watch our Peace and Security Campaigner, Reem Abu-Hayyeh, lead a reading group for our friends at Campaign Against the Arms Trade on the topic of Coronavirus and the Arms Trade.
In this blog, Dr. Tumbi Otudeko questions the provision of universal healthcare in UK prisons, discussing health disparities facing the prison population.
Our annual appeal remembers the anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attacks – on the cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945 – and helps to support Medact’s work using the health voice to advocate for peace and nuclear disarmament throughout the year.
An online meeting to discuss the ways that health workers can take action on issues related to the Prevent duty in the NHS.
Vice covered some of the key findings from our report ‘False Positives: the Prevent counter-extremism policy in healthcare’, with a particular emphasis on the research highlighting the racial and religious disproportionality in who is reported under the Prevent duty.