The gathering is a great opportunity for you to hone your campaigning knowledge, confidence and skills. Throughout the conference, and particularly on Sunday 29th of March, you’ll have the chance to attend a number of training workshops on a range of advocacy techniques. The gathering is a great opportunity for you to hone your campaigning knowledge, confidence and skills. Throughout the conference, and particularly on Sunday 29th of March, you’ll have the chance to attend a number of training workshops on a range of advocacy techniques.

Medact’s Migrant Solidarity Group will look at how we can turn research into action through working with the Royal Colleges. We’ll hear from the incredible Justice for Simba campaign about the need to build strong communities in the face of hostile policy. A panel of experts including researchers from the New Economics Foundation will examine the history and current international context of the fight for universal healthcare. And of course you’ll be able to join local Medact groups, Docs Not Cops, and Migrants Organise and find out how you can get involved in the coming year.

Our climate and health stream will examine the health community’s role in fighting the systems and structures that are devastating both human and planetary health. We’ll explore the climate crisis as a consequence of colonialism and a deeply destructive economic system, asking what economic and health systems that prioritise both human and planetary health would look like, and how can we play a role in building these systems.

We’ll look ahead to COP26 in Glasgow─beginning our fight for a fossil free COP that safeguards the human right to health─and also hear about Medact’s work in tackling the public health crisis created by air pollution. Join us as we fight for a Fossil Free world that prioritizes human health over corporate profit.

The stream will give an insight into the ways in which health workers around the world and in the UK can come together to work toward peace, and ask attendees the question: what does security mean to you, and what is the role of the health community in achieving it?

We will offer sessions for those who are keen to campaign on Economic Justice issues with an aim to develop our understanding of key areas of action. We will also facilitate a workshop in which members can contribute to creating Medact’s vision for the campaign area as a whole.