Location: Medact Offices Background Medact is a London-based health charity designed to enable health professionals to act on the social, political, ecological and economic determinants of health and health inequality. Medact is developing a strategic workplan for the next two years. As part of this process, it is organising a workshop to help determine its […]
Medact and the Royal Society of Medicine are holding an event on 29th April: “Torture – An ethical dilemma for the medical profession?” Torture is all too common and widespread; and it comes into touch with many parts of the medical and public health system. What is the ethical position of clinicians working in prison […]
Venue: Royal College of Physicians, London NW1 4LE Thursday 25th September, 6:30pm – 8pm followed by a drinks reception This is the third in this year’s series of Global Health Advocacy seminars, held by the Royal College of Physicians and the Alma Mata Global Health Network. If you missed the last one, you can watch it […]
In association with the Medact Preventing Torture initiative, the Global Health Section of the Royal Society of Medicine will be hosting a series of training sessions for clinicians who are called upon to produce medico-legal reports give oral evidence about survivors of torture. These will be half-day sessions, open and participation will be free of […]
QPSW, ICAN-UK and Religions for Peace invite you to Friends House, Euston, London for an afternoon of training and discussion on the humanitarian initiative on nuclear weapons 1.30pm – 5pm on Saturday 25th October 2014 Come and learn about the latest developments moving the international community towards a treaty to ban nuclear weapons as […]
A meeting to discuss lobbying the European Parliament about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).