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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Paul Sims on Beds not Bombs: histories of the medical anti-war movement
To launch the Medact archive on 27 June 2014, Wellcome Library played host to a conference on the history of medical activism: ‘Beds not Bombs: Exploring the archives of anti-nuclear […]
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Health Impact Assessment and Conflict – a case study to assess the potential health consequences of military action against Iran
Medact has developed a Health Impact Assessment of what the consequences of military action would be for health if armed conflict against Iran by the United States and its allies were […]
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Health Impact Assessments
There is a wealth of data and research on the devastating consequences for health of violent conflict. Up until now this research has not been used by decision makers in […]
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Atoms for Peace – the Atomic Weapons Establishment and UK universities
Medact and the Nuclear Information Service have undertaken a two-year study to investigate research links between British universities and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), which is responsible for designing and manufacturing […]
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Combat and the Campus – nuclear weapons research at Britain’s universities
Launch of the ‘Atoms for Peace?’ research report on university links to the UK’s nuclear weapons programme followed by a panel discussion on the ethics of military research in universities […]
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Doctors and Drones
Dr Tomasz Pierscionek, co-author of Medact’s Drone report, talks to Carol Anne Grayson.