Streamed live from the COP27 climate talks in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt – Medact members brought together a panel of activists from the global movement for health and climate justice to discuss the need for a transformative Green New Deal that centres the health of people and planet!  Speakers include:  Asad Rehman – War on Want, UK  Omar Elmawi – Stop EACOP, Kenya  Erika Arteaga Cruz – People’s Health Movement, Extractive Industries Circle, Ecuador  Jon Bonifacio – Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment, Philippines   Chaired by Dr Abi Deivanayagam ..read more

It is possible to create a society in which our collective safety and wellbeing are prioritised. Developing trusting, healthy relationships with all of our patients is essential to this work. However, Prevent – with the government’s stated aim of identifying “vulnerability to radicalisation” – compromises all of this, and is a source of harm and increased marginalisation. Why is the NHS the only healthcare system in the world with a legal obligation to engage with such a strategy? What aren’t you being told about Prevent in safeguarding training? Learn more in our series of online Alternative ..read more

Read the briefing: link.medact.org/PolicingBill Watch this event on YouTube: youtu.be/hqDFFtF7nMA The government has misleadingly branded the racist and dangerous PCSC (Policing) Bill a “public health approach” to combating serious violence. But health workers in the Medact Research Network have debunked these claims in a new briefing. Written to support the huge groundswell of opposition to this bill in the #KillTheBill movement, the briefing explains why the measures in the Bill – greater police powers, repression of protest, harsher prison sentences, erosion of confidentiality and increased ..read more

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Main Speaker: Vijay Mehta Vijay is a renowned author and global activist for peace, development and human rights, and is Co-Founder and Chair of Uniting for Peace. His new book on The Economics of Killing was published by Pluto Press in 2012 and describes how the Military Industrial Complex works, its links with global financial crisis and the role of Western governments play in perpetuating conflicts ..read more

On the 25th May 2021 we held our second Alternative Training on Prevent in Healthcare to explore what you aren't being told about Prevent in safeguarding training.  The training shed light on some unanswered questions about Prevent and we heard from: Members of Medact’s Securitisation of Health Group (SHG) Susan Wright ─ a crime and human rights barrister acting for defendants, NGOs and other organisations on a range of public law matters Reem Abu-Hayyeh ─ Campaigns and Policy Lead: Peace and Security at Medact Dr Lyn Jenkins ─ a retired GP/ ophthalmologist, bereavement support volunteer ..read more

On the 19th May 2021, we held an event to launch our latest report Racism, mental health and pre-crime policing: the ethics of Vulnerability Support Hubs. The report is based on documents obtained through a series of long-running Freedom of Information requests and exposes how a counterterrorism police-led project blurs the boundaries between security and care in disturbing and dangerous ways.   At the report launch we were joined by guest speakers: Dr Hilary Aked – Medact’s Research and Policy Manager Dr Tarek Younis – Cultural and critical clinical psychologist and Lecturer in Psy ..read more

The Health for a Green New Deal campaign seeks to build mass support in the health community for a transformative Green New Deal and to organise health workers and students to advocate for a just transition to a zero-carbon society. The Medact Climate & Health research cluster has been working on a briefing that sets out the public health case for a Green New Deal and sets out key actions that health workers and students can take to organise. On 8th April we held an event to launch the briefing and we heard from a range of guest speakers and Medact activists from across the country, includ ..read more

It is possible to create a society in which our collective safety and wellbeing are prioritised. Developing trusting, healthy relationships with all of our patients is essential to this work.  However, Prevent ─ with the government’s stated aim of identifying “vulnerability to radicalisation” ─ compromises all of this, and is a source of harm and increased marginalisation.  Why is the NHS the only healthcare system in the world with a legal obligation to engage with such a strategy? What aren’t you being told about Prevent in safeguarding training?  We hosted a training session ..read more

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