Medact’s Organisational Strategy 2025–2030: How we grow
To win a world centred on health justice we need to set out our vision for that world while we bring an end to the unjust systems currently shaping our lives. This means hearing what health justice means to people across our movement, and exploring the complexity and beauty of the possible futures we are building together. It means developing a deep understanding of what is happening now, through evidence, testimony and conversation. And it means connecting our long-term vision to the steps we can take to get there, identifying what practical and material changes we can make now to move us in the right direction.
We know that health resonates deeply with everyone, connecting their personal experiences directly to the systems that shape their wellbeing. Increasingly there is recognition that good health is not just about diagnosis and treatment of disease, but about the conditions and systems that shape our ability to live a healthy life, connecting the idea of good health to housing, air quality, employment and climate change. The health community has a key role to play in making these connections and furthering collective understanding of health as political, not individual.
We will:
- Amplify the analysis of Medact members and people we organise alongside – ensuring the voices of impacted communities and health workers are setting the narrative for health justice
- Build the knowledge base that underpins a health justice approach, through producing action-oriented, participant-led research and reports
- Use our skills and experience to make visible the harms of systems of health inequity, working with impacted communities and health workers to set out long-term alternative visions and short-term demands
- Iterate our approach as we learn from our work, ensuring we are at the forefront of health justice praxis – we will share learnings, make space for evaluation and reflection, and be bold in our approach to change
