• Criminalising Distress: empowering patients, challenging police in mental health care

    Criminalising Distress: empowering patients, challenging police in mental health care

    Our current research project is an urgently needed national study to explore the harm created by SIM —Serenity Integrated Mentoring —a controversial new “model of care” adopted by almost half of all mental health trusts in England.


  • A journey from darkness to light: 2023 IPPNW Bike Tour,  Kenya 

    A journey from darkness to light: 2023 IPPNW Bike Tour,  Kenya 

    Medact member and IPPNW board member Bimal Khadka reflects on a five day, 500km ride across Kenya to attend the 2023 IPPNW World Congress in Mombasa.


  • Medact Groups Check-in

    This is a space for people active in Medact local or issue groups to connect, to share collective learning from our organising—the challenges and successes and how we can support each other moving forward.


  • Neoliberalism, Security and the Politics of Mental Health

    Neoliberalism, Security and the Politics of Mental Health

    Join us for a panel discussion on the politics of mental health and impact of neoliberal policies and security measures on mental health, with guests Tarek Younis, Mashal Iftikar and Hil Aked.


  • Medact Northeast: Don’t Bank on the Bomb

    Medact Northeast: Don’t Bank on the Bomb

    Join Medact Northeast for an action raising awareness of Natwest’s investments in nuclear weapons production.


  • Pegasus Institute’s Summer Institute in Peace, Health and Sustainability

    Pegasus Institute’s Summer Institute in Peace, Health and Sustainability

    Find out more about this summer’s upcoming Institute in Peace, Health and Sustainability run by McGill University and the Pegasus Institute. The Summer Institute offers courses for students interested in how migration, conflict, and the environment shape human health.


  • Nuclear Weapons Group meeting

    Nuclear Weapons Group meeting

    Medact’s Nuclear Weapons Group represents the longest standing aspect of Medact’s work to address war, armed violence and conflict as global threats to health.


  • Hamburg IPPNW European Meeting ends with a call for Peace

    Hamburg IPPNW European Meeting ends with a call for Peace

    IPPNW Europe gathered together in Hamburg over 20–22 January 2023 to discuss nuclear disarmament and the prevention of nuclear war


  • Nuclear Weapons Group meeting

    Nuclear Weapons Group meeting

    Medact’s Nuclear Weapons Group represents the longest standing aspect of Medact’s work to address war, armed violence and conflict as global threats to health.


  • Health workers stand against Prevent

    Health workers stand against Prevent

    Everything you need to know about the Prevent duty in health, the so-called “independent” review of Prevent, and how we can challenge Prevent in this new blog, written by two members of our Securitisation of Health group.