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Health workers for health justice! https://medact.org

Alejandra Muñoz is Senior Project Officer at Dutch peace organization PAX, where she is currently involved in the Don’t Bank on the Bomb research, and is the lead author of the recently published report ‘At Great Cost: The companies building nuclear weapons and their financiers.’ Prior to joining PAX, Alejandra worked as a legal advisor in the International Crimes & Accountability program of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin, and with the Colombian lawyers' collective Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CAJAR) in Bogotá.
Shown our findings, Dr Amaran Uthayakumar-Cumarasamy, an NHS paediatrician who works with campaign group Medact, questioned whether it was right that private companies are making profits from this sector. He says: “Health workers witness the impact of unsafe, unaffordable and insecure housing on children and young people on a daily basis. Undernutrition, respiratory illness and poor mental health are symptomatic of the failures of an unjust housing system. The use of temporary accommodation paints an especially bleak picture for both the short and long-term damage done to the physical, mental and social health of children and young people.”
Susi Snyder is the Programme Coordinator at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Her responsibilities include facilitating the development and execution of ICAN's key programmes, including the management of ICAN's divestment work and engagement with the financial sector. Prior to this, Susi coordinated the Don’t Bank on the Bomb project for over a decade. She is an expert on nuclear weapons, with experience working at the intersect between nuclear weapons and human rights.
A crowd watching a presentation with a slide titled 'A health justice aproach'