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Medact Gathering 2020 [POSTPONED]

by Medact | Mar 27, 2020 | Events, Conferences, Climate & Environment, Economic Justice, Human Rights, Membership, Peace & Security

After careful consideration and consultation, we have now decided to postpone our upcoming Health Justice conference in light of the current situation regarding Coronavirus.

Showing that the health community supports the Student Climate Strikers – September Actions

by Deirdre Duff | Sep 20, 2019 | Events, Actions, Climate & Environment

We’re asking members of the healthcare community to support the Student Climate Strikers during a global week of action from 20th to 27th September.

Divestment in Dorset – the impact of climate change on global health equality

by Benjamin Walpole | May 9, 2019 | Events, Films, Meetings, Climate & Environment

Working or studying in health? Worried about the impact of climate change on global health? Do you want to learn more about how YOU can influence your local government to move away from investment in fossil fuels? (Divestment) Join us to find out about Medact’s...

Ask the Royal College of Physicians to stop investing in fossil fuels

by Deirdre Duff | Mar 28, 2019 | Sign-Ons, Climate & Environment

Members and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians are co-ordinating this letter to the college President and Treasurer encouraging them to end the college’s investment in the fossil fuel industry.

Call on East Riding of Yorkshire County Council and East Riding of Yorkshire County Council Pension Fund Committee to go #FossilFree

by Medact Yorkshire | Mar 26, 2019 | Sign-Ons, Climate & Environment

Healthcare workers are calling on the East Riding of Yorkshire County Council and the East Riding of Yorkshire County Council Pension Fund Committee to divest from fossil fuels.

Fighting Fracking and Fossil Fuel Divestment – how health professionals can help build a Fossil Free world

by Rebecca Daniels | Jan 26, 2019 | Events

Join global health charity Medact and Concerned Health Professionals UK for an afternoon of talks and workshops in Leeds. We’ll explore how health professionals can help build a fossil free world and discuss our role in campaigning against fracking and...

Call on Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, to clean up Bristol’s unhealthy air

by Medact Bristol | Dec 12, 2018 | Sign-Ons, Climate & Environment

Medact Bristol is co-ordinating a letter calling on the Mayor of Bristol, Martin Rees, to act to protect our health and take serious action on air pollution

Leading UK Public Health body ends investment in fossil fuel industry

by Deirdre Duff | Dec 10, 2018 | News, Climate & Environment

The UK Faculty of Public Health has ended all investment in gas, oil and coal companies. In doing so it highlights the health impacts of fossil fuel driven climate change. Our Fossil Free Health campaigner, Deirdre Duff, shares the news.

British Psychological Society divests from gas, oil and coal

by Deirdre Duff | Nov 13, 2018 | Campaign Updates, News, Press Releases, Climate & Environment, Peace & Security

The British Psychological Society is divesting from fossil fuels! It joins a growing number of health organisations that are cutting ties with gas, oil and coal. Dr Deirdre Duff reports on their divestment decision.

Open letter welcoming RCGP divestment from fossil fuels and calling on others to follow suit

by Deirdre Duff | Oct 2, 2018 | Sign-Ons, Climate & Environment

Medact is coordinating an open letter from GPs, to the RCGP, to congratulate them on their divestment from fossil fuels and to encourage others to divest.

Royal College of General Practitioners divests from fossil fuels!

by Deirdre Duff | Jul 30, 2018 | Blog, Headlines, Climate & Environment

The Royal College of General Practitioners is divesting from all fossil fuels. Dr Deirdre Duff shares this exciting news.

Fossil Free Health Liverpool – divestment film and discussion

by Alice Munro | May 14, 2017 | Events, Talks & Lectures, Climate & Environment

This is the last in a series of health focused events during Global Divestment Mobilisation week.  Please join us at the HUS bar, Liverpool where organisers of fossil free health, the health divestment campaign, will discuss why now, more than ever, health...
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