• Healthy Planet, Better World

    Healthy Planet, Better World

    Thank you to everyone who joined us over the two days Videos and slides from presentations are available below. View the full event programme.


  • Climate Change, Health and Global Justice

    Climate Change, Health and Global Justice

      Concerns about the health impacts of climate change are growing. Climate change has very significant implications for public health and the topic is climbing higher on the international agenda. […]


  • Fracking

    Fracking

    “The arguments against fracking on public health and ecological grounds are overwhelming. There are clear grounds for adopting the precautionary principle and prohibiting fracking” – Quote from an open letter in […]


  • Shifting Towards Sustainable Diets – how dietitians can help

    Shifting Towards Sustainable Diets – how dietitians can help

    As we are faced with an increasingly uncertain food future, there is an urgent need to take a sustainable ecological approach to our food system. Dietitians can and should play an important role in this emerging area.


  • Climate Change & Health

    Climate Change & Health

    Climate change is affecting the health of both people and the planet right now.  It will affect the most fundamental determinants of health: water, food, air and which infectious diseases […]


  • An Updated Public Health Assessment of Shale Gas Fracking

    Medact today released an updated assessment of the potential health impacts of shale fracking in England.


  • Shale Gas Production in England – an updated public health assessment

    Shale Gas Production in England – an updated public health assessment

    Download: A Public Health Assessment of Shale Gas in England Medact’s new report summarises the findings of a public health assessment of unconventional shale gas production in England.  In 2015 […]


  • Shale Gas Production in England – report release video

    Shale Gas Production in England, an Updated Public Health AssessmentWatch this video on YouTube  


  • In support of anti-fracking campaigner Tina Rothery

    In support of anti-fracking campaigner Tina Rothery

    Tina Rothery is a high profile community campaigner in Lancashire who will be attending Blackpool County Court on Friday 24 June, having been ordered to pay costs of over £55,000 to […]


  • Audio Recordings from Sheffield Fracking Masterclass

    Audio Recordings from Sheffield Fracking Masterclass

    In the run up to the release of our new report, Medact and the Faculty of Public Health co-hosted a workshop on the health impacts of fracking. Audio recordings from three of the day’s presentations are now available.