The fourth episode of the GHW6 podcast series features Roman Gnagi and Catia Confortini, members of Medact, a UK-based organization affiliated with PHM and co-producer of the Global Health Watch series. Together with other Medact members, they wrote a chapter in Global Health Watch 6 analyzing the relations between war, conflict, peace, and health, and the impact of Covid-19 in countries affected by conflict.   

This podcast episode illustrates the concept of positive peace and its relation with the social determinants of health and health promotion, to then analyze the different approaches to peacebuilding and the role that health activists and health workers can play.