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Freedom day: Unequal freedoms = health injustice
“Freedom day” is clearly not about freedom from the risk of illness, death and destitution. It’s a continuation of the very system of governance that created avoidable public health harms […]
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The unprotected many and the protected few: Working towards a health justice approach to future pandemic preparedness.
In our latest blog, Siddhartha Mehta and Sreeshna Jagadeesan discuss how we can work towards a health justice approach to future pandemic preparedness.
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Health Versus Wealth? UK economic policy and public health during COVID-19
In this new briefing, our Economic Justice & Health Group shine a light on the UK government’s assumption that the health of the public and the economy are in tension.
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Coronavirus and the politics of far-right nationalism in India
A Medact member and Consultant doctor discusses the Indian government’s mismanaged and authoritarian response to the Coronavirus pandemic. They analyse the social impact of the measures taken and the ideology that has driven decision making during the public health crisis.
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Sri Lanka’s militarised coronavirus containment has grave consequences
Medact member Dr. Thusiyan Nandakumar outlines Sri Lanka’s militarised response to the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that it is entrenching institutionalised discrimination in the country.
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Protecting renters now can help us minimise a second covid-19 wave
In this new piece, Daniel Carter, Medact member and research fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, discusses the need for greater protections for renters as a […]
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Emergency Preparedness ─ COVID-19 was a failure, just imagine the fallout from a nuclear war
Junior Doctor, Bimal Khadaka, discusses the importance of strengthening the Planning and Mitigation phases of our global emergency control measures to prevent the harmful impacts of both pandemics and nuclear warfare
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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.
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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.
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Mind the Gap – healthcare disparities in UK prisons
In this blog, Dr. Tumbi Otudeko questions the provision of universal healthcare in UK prisons, discussing health disparities facing the prison population.
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Mitigating public health risk from evictions
Sixteen of the UK’s leading public health organisations have written to Secretary of State for Housing Robert Jenrick urging him to extend the eviction ban due to be lifted Monday […]