We are very excited to share that we have launched the People's Health Watch (PHW). We believe that the current neoliberal, economic system, founded on colonialism, racism, patriarchy, violence must be dismantled. It puts profit over the health of people …
Continue ReadingThis year we celebrated World Health Dayby saying #ReclaimYourHealth! Every year on World Health Day people and communities from all over the world gather together to call for urgent progress towards Universal Health Coverage (read Alternative Astana Declaration). All around the world …
Continue ReadingPeoples Health Movement every year organizes the WHO watch, a project with the aim to technically follow the political global health discussion. At PHM, we believe that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is the legitimate space for global health policymaking. …
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Another re-post from Mark Gamsu, Professor at Leeds Met, a keen specialist in tackling health inequality, this time about how participation can be embedded in Clinical Commissioning Groups' work. NHS England are currently coming to the end of a consultation …
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This blog was reposted from the blog of Mark Gamsu - Professor at Leeds Met, a keen specialist in tackling health inequality through strong citizens, local government & voluntary sector. Here he writes about local community health champions and examples from wider …
Continue Readingby Natalie Rhodes - PHM UK working group member In August it was announced (via The Sunday Times…) that Public Health England (PHE) is to be merged with the NHS Test and Trace and the UK's Joint Biosecurity Centre, marking the …
Continue ReadingPeople and health activists from all over the world returned to Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh where the People’s Health Movement physically and spiritually began in 2000. 18 years following the first People’s Health Assembly and 40 years following the Alma-ata declaration, …
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After a 28 hour journey and a further 7 hour wait for our Visas to be processed, PHM-UK have arrived in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 18 years after the first People’s Health Assembly was held here and the subsequent birth of the …
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This 15th June in London representatives from various progressive health organisations & activists met to discuss forming a national People's Health Movement circle - with the intention going forwards to garner enthusiasm and support for a vibrant and effective grassroots …
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