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'{{Multiple issues| {{Update|date=April 2017}} {{advert|date=September 2015}} }} {{Infobox organization | name = Medact | logo = Medact logo 2015.png | caption = Medact logo 2015 | type = Membership organisation for health workers | founded_date = {{Start date|1992}} | director = Sophie Neuburg | location = [[London]], United-Kingdom <!-- this parameter modifies "Headquarters" --> | origins = | key_people = | area_served = | product = | focus = Public health | mission = To support health professionals from all disciplines to work together towards a world in which everyone can truly achieve and exercise their human [[right to health]] | endowment = | num_employees = 7 | subsid = | owner = | Non-profit_slogan = Health professionals for a safer, fairer, better world | homepage = [https://www.medact.org medact.org] | dissolved = | footnotes = }} '''Medact''' is a non-profit organisation and registered charity,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1081097&subid=0|title=MEDACT - Charity 1081097}}</ref> whose mission is "to support health professionals from all disciplines to work together towards a world in which everyone can truly achieve and exercise their human right to health".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mission|url=https://www.medact.org/about/mission/|access-date=2021-08-22|website=Medact|language=en-GB}}</ref> Medact was formed in 1992 following the merger of [[Medical Association for the Prevention of War]].<ref>{{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Association_for_Prevention_of_War}}</ref> (MAPW) and the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW). Following the merger of these not-for-profit medical peace organisations, Medact broadened its mission to include the health threats posed by [[climate change]] and [[economic inequality]]. Their areas of work are spread across four main areas: peace and security, climate and environment, economic justice and health and human rights. Medact is affiliated to [[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.medact.org/wmd_nuclear.php |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-04-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630232907/http://medact.org/wmd_nuclear.php |archivedate=2007-06-30 }}</ref> [[File:Pamphlet; The medical consequences of nuclear war Wellcome L0075369.jpg|thumb|[[Pamphlet]]: The medical consequences of [[nuclear war]]]] ==Notable work== Between 2001 and 2012, Medact produced a number of reports on the [[Iraq War#Iraqi healthcare deterioration|health impact of the war in Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Health and Health Policy in Iraq|url=https://www.medact.org/project/health-health-policy-iraq-2002-2012/|access-date=2021-08-22|website=Medact|language=en-GB}}</ref> They have issued a three reports and two shorter 'updates', have defended the [[Lancet surveys of casualties of the Iraq War]] and, as part of the Count the Casualties campaign, have called for an independent investigation into increased mortality in Iraq.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.countthecasualties.org.uk/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319194116/http://www.countthecasualties.org.uk/ |archive-date=2007-03-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Medact has produced reports documenting the phenomenon of health worker migration from less economically developed nations to rich countries, which they describe as a "perverse subsidy".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Medact|date=2014-09-10|title=Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa's billion dollar losses|url=https://www.medact.org/2014/resources/reports/honest-accounts/|access-date=2021-08-22|website=Medact|language=en-GB}}</ref> Medact also work on the health of refugees and migrants in the UK, in particular documenting and challenging barriers to healthcare. Medact have been involved in the Global Health Watch, a civil society project aiming to produce alternative versions of the [[World Health Organization]]'s annual World Health Report.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ghwatch.org|title=ghwatch.org|publisher=}}</ref> ==Collaborators== * [[Quakers]] * [[Médecins Sans Frontières]] * [[Campaign Against Arms Trade]] * [[Saferworld]] * [[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons]] * [[British Medical Association]] * [[Royal Society of Medicine]] * [[Health Poverty Action]] * [[People's Health Movement]] * [[Friends of the Earth]] * [[War on Want]] * [[Tax Justice Network]] * [[New Economics Foundation]] * [[Oxford Research Group]] * [[Queen Mary University]] ==External links== {{commons category|Medact}} * {{Official website|https://www.medact.org }} *The archive of Medact (and its predecessor body the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons) is held at [[Wellcome Collection]], and is searchable in the library catalogue (SA/MED).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wellcomecollection.org/|title=Wellcome Collection|website=Wellcome Collection|language=en|access-date=2018-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archives.wellcomelibrary.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(AltRefNo='sa/med')|title=Wellcome Library Western Manuscripts and Archives catalogue|website=archives.wellcomelibrary.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-04}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Health charities in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Organizations established in 1992]] [[Category:Anti-nuclear organizations]] [[Category:Medical associations based in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Environmental organisations based in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Public health in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:English health activists]]'