Action Call: Building the Health Movement for a Green New Deal

Medact

On the 9th July 2020 we held an Action Call to build the Health Movement for a Green New Deal.
We discussed the what, why and how of building the health movement for transformative climate justice and were joined by special guest speakers:

• Dr Abdul El-Sayed – Former Health Director of Detroit and professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health

• Guppi Bola – Former Medact Interim-Director, Chair of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, researcher and public health strategist with a background in economic justice campaigning.

• Dr Stephanie Davis Le Brun – Clinical psychologist working in older adult mental health services and a member of the North West branch of Psychologists for Social Change.
  

Here are some useful links shared in the Action Call.
Form to book a Health for a Green New Deal campaign session:
https://link.medact.org/GNDSession
‘Reimagining Public Health’ report by Guppi Bola:
https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/reports/reimagining-public-health
‘The Green New Deal doesn’t just help climate. It’s also a public health new deal.’ by Abdul El-Sayed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/26/the-green-new-deal-public-health-new-deal
Just Recovery letter - Psychologists for Social Change North-West
http://www.psychchange.org/a-north-west-just-recovery-following-coronavirus.html