Peace Through Health

IPPNW's Peace Through Health program area encompasses a broad range of activities, including:

• A partnership with McMaster University in a "Peace Through Health" program, exploring ways in which health interventions in actual and potential war zones may contribute to peace.
• Medact, the British affiliate of IPPNW, has published a series of in-depth studies of the long-term health consequences of the war against Iraq and the subsequent US/UK led occupation.
• A new IPPNW public education project - Global Health Alerts - teams up medical students with physician mentors to make public presentations on a whole range of issues related to the root causes of armed conflict.
• A new Medical Peace Education program, sponsored by IPPNW Norway, is offering medical students a core curriculum exploring the intersections between health and security as both academic and public policy issues. In the UK, Medact has produced a global health curriculum for use by public health instructors.