• Stop the Bombs: Medics Under Fire

    Stop the Bombs: Medics Under Fire

    STOP THE BOMBS TO MEDICAL WORKERS AROUND THE WORLD: The field hospital that I established and direct in Syria has been hit by bombing and airstrikes 17 times. As trusted […]


  • Forum 2014 – Health In Action

    Forum 2014 – Health In Action

    Click here to view the Forum recordings! Click here to join Medact On the day – Summary This year’s forum, chaired by Gill Walt, Emeritus Professor at the London School […]


  • How Nearly Everything in Dr Strangelove is True, and What We Need to Do About It – with Eric Schlosser

    Details: The risks and consequences associated with nuclear weapons are much higher than previously acknowledged. Investigative journalist and author Eric Schlosser will describe some of the findings in his book Command and […]


  • Global Health Watch 4 – An Alternative World Health Report

    Global Health Watch 4 – An Alternative World Health Report

    The Global Health Watch is perceived widely as the definitive voice for an alternate discourse on health and health care. This 4th edition covers a range of issues that currently […]


  • Concert for Peace

    MANA – Musicians for Peace presents a Concert For Peace Click here to book your ticket


  • Afternoon training and discussion on the humanitarian initiative on nuclear weapons

     QPSW, ICAN-UK and Religions for Peace invite you to Friends House, Euston, London for an afternoon of training and discussion on the humanitarian initiative on nuclear weapons 1.30pm – 5pm […]


  • Report from IPPNW’s 21st Congress, Astana, Kazakhstan, 27 – 29 August 2014

    Report from IPPNW’s 21st Congress, Astana, Kazakhstan, 27 – 29 August 2014

    About 500 delegates from nations world-wide met in the amazing Conference Centre in the centre of the ultra-modern city of Astana, new capital of Kazakhstan. Six delegates, including Simon Rushton, […]


  • Reviving the Medical Peace Movement

    Reviving the Medical Peace Movement

    Dear Friends and Colleagues, On the 6th August 1945, 70,000 people in Hiroshima were killed almost instantly by the Atom bomb. Another 70,000 were fatally injured. Local hospitals were destroyed and their […]


  • Open Letter: for the people in Gaza

    Open Letter: for the people in Gaza

    Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, Swee Ang, on behalf of 24 signatories We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect […]


  • The Medical Effects of Nuclear Weapons

    The Medical Effects of Nuclear Weapons

    The effects of Nuclear War have been analysed by a number of campaign and medical groups, below is a selection of useful resources. Reports The concluding report from the Trident […]


  • Health Professionals and Nuclear War

    Health Professionals and Nuclear War

    ‘We physicians protest the outrage of holding the entire world hostage. We protest the moral obscenity that each of us is being continually targeted for extinction. We protest the ongoing […]