Making effective Freedom of Information Requests
Medact Research Manager, Dr Hilary Aked, recently led a training session giving supporters the know-how to make effective Freedom of Information requests, which can form a useful part of many campaigns for…
Action Call: Housing & public health ─ the eviction crisis in the time of COVID-19
Watch a recording of our Action Call with London Renters Union & Pathways where we discussed the interconnected issues of housing justice and health equity.
CAAT Reading Group – Coronavirus & The Arms Trade
Watch our Peace and Security Campaigner, Reem Abu-Hayyeh, lead a reading group for our friends at Campaign Against the Arms Trade on the topic of Coronavirus and the Arms Trade.
First principles of health justice: a human right to be healthy – Sridhar Venkatapuram – TEDxLSHTM
In this talk at TEDxLSHTM, Medact Trustee Sridhar Venkatapuram argues that every human being has a human right to the capability to be healthy.
Kinari Webb at Healthy Planet – “Radical Listening: Saving Lives and Rainforest in Borneo”
MD and Founder of Health in Harmony, Kinari Webb, shares her insights on her organisation’s work improving the lives of people in the communities around Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo through increased and affordable health care, decreased logging of the park and introduction of alternative incomes sources.
Corinna Hawkes – “Global Food System Challenges”
Professor Corinna Hawkes provides a broad global perspective on the central challenges for food systems, as an opening to the Food stream of the conference.
From Session A1 – “Global Food System Challenges”
Annie Quick – “Equality and Sustainability: Where does the UK stand?”
Annie Quick, lead for Wellbeing and Inequality at the New Economics Foundation, outlines some of the issues around inequality and the environment in the UK, considers the political context, and attempts to offer a hope for the future….
Milja Fenger & Samuel Lee-Gammage – “Planet on a plate: Interconnected impacts of our global food system”
From Session A1 – “Global Food System Challenges”
David Powell – “Flowers, elephants & conflicts: Kenya’s progress on inequality & sustainability”
Environment programme lead David Powell discusses a partnership between the New Economic Foundation and the African Centre for a Green Economy looking at the dynamics between economic inequality and sustainability in four case studies from…
John Lanchbery – “The Paris Agreement: game changer or more hot air?”
John Lanchbery is the Principal Advisor on climate change at the RSPB and a lead member of the BirdLife International team on climate change. At the conference he shared his insight on the COP21 Paris Agreement and what progress has been…
Hugh Grant-Peterkin – “Groups under Pressure” & follow-up discussion
Hugh Grant-Peterkin considers how psychotherapeutic thinking can help us understand our response to climate change; and opens up the session to a group discussion.
Sally Weintrobe – “Some effects of current culture on mental health”
Sally Weintrobe discusses the relationship between mental health, climate change, and a culture of uncare, arguing that climate change is a symptom of a much deeper problem affecting mental health.