WELCOMES and FAREWELLS! SF Bay PSR Interns!

FEBRUARY 1, 2024 We are thrilled to welcome our 2024 interns Miguel Mercado, Navreet Purewal, and Kelly Lin! And we say thank you, farewell, and best wishes to our 2023 intern Sienna Marley. Emerging health professionals often feel not only pressure to achieve their career goals, but also a great responsibility to protect community ...

WELCOMES and FAREWELLS! SF Bay PSR Interns!2024-02-02T11:03:08-08:00

Peace Advocacy in the New Year

JANUARY 17, 2024 Our hearts are heavy as this momentous election year threatens our democracy, and the Israel-Gaza war has killed more than 23,000 people (mostly women and children) and continues to become an even larger humanitarian and health atrocity. On Monday, we reflected on the words of Martin Luther King Jr. whose wisdom guides ...

Peace Advocacy in the New Year2024-01-19T10:18:02-08:00

Peace Report from 23rd IPPNW World Congress in Mombasa, Kenya

JUNE 1, 2023 Physicians for Social Responsibility has for decades been centrally focused on moving our world away from our gravest threats exemplified by nuclear weapons and our climate emergency. Against the backdrop of Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine and rising tensions between the United States and China, we (SF Bay ...

Peace Report from 23rd IPPNW World Congress in Mombasa, Kenya2023-05-31T11:03:29-07:00

Our PEACE Work & Wishing you Happy Holidays!

DECEMBER 6, 2022 Dear Friends: We wish you healthy and happy holidays!  We also want to THANK YOU for your support and share with you a MATCHING GIFT opportunity. If we can raise $20,000 through our end-of-year campaign, an anonymous donor will match it. We need $8,000 more to reach our goal. PLEASE GIVE HERE. ...

Our PEACE Work & Wishing you Happy Holidays!2022-12-06T11:18:33-08:00

Intertwined Health Crises—Climate and Nuclear Disasters

“The climate crisis is leading to greater international conflict, and stockpiling nuclear weapons redirects precious resources away from equitable climate actions, while increasing risk of a nuclear conflict.” PSR Leaders, Dr. Ira Helfand and Dr. Marjaneh Moini, “A Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Will Save Lives,” in Common Dreams. NOVEMBER 15, 2022 Dear Friends: Like you, ...

Intertwined Health Crises—Climate and Nuclear Disasters2022-11-28T15:33:47-08:00

Richmond Healthy Environment Project in collaboration with Richmond Shoreline Alliance

This project was made possible with generous funding from the Resources Legacy Fund. In support of a residential-grade cleanup of the AstraZeneca toxic waste site on Richmond’s southeast shoreline, the SF Bay Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Richmond Shoreline Alliance (RSA) are undertaking a community engagement and capacity-building process called the Healthy Environment Project. The goal of ...

Richmond Healthy Environment Project in collaboration with Richmond Shoreline Alliance2022-09-12T19:18:51-07:00

SF Bay PSR’s 2022 Roadmap: Advocating for health-based solutions to our world’s crises for more than 40 years!!

MARCH 8, 2022 NEWS, STAFF & INTERN UPDATES, EVENTS & MORE Once again, the new year is off to a tumultuous start. As our hearts go out to the people of Ukraine, we painfully watch our world in crisis on multiple fronts: Russia invaded Ukraine and threatened to use nuclear weapons; the United Nations’ ...

SF Bay PSR’s 2022 Roadmap: Advocating for health-based solutions to our world’s crises for more than 40 years!!2022-03-09T14:13:21-08:00

COP26: Where Do We Go from Here?

NOVEMBER 17, 2021 PSR Member News, Action Updates, Anti-Nuclear and California Policy Watch, and More During the first two weeks of November, as we watched Congress haggle over Biden’s infrastructure and Build Back Better plans, oil executives testify at congressional hearings attempting to hold them accountable, and world leaders posture at the United ...

COP26: Where Do We Go from Here?2021-11-18T15:50:41-08:00

SF Bay PSR Board Member Dr. Tom Newman is donating the royalties from his book to PSR

SF Bay PSR Board Member Dr. Tom Newman dedicated his book, Evidence-Based Diagnosis: An Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology, (co-authored by Michael A. Kohn), to his parents, Ed and Carol Newman, in whose honor he is donating his royalties to Physicians for Social Responsibility, in support of its efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

SF Bay PSR Board Member Dr. Tom Newman is donating the royalties from his book to PSR2021-09-08T12:52:35-07:00

Linking Our Movements Against Global Warming and Militarism

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 PSR Member News, Action Updates, Anti-Nuclear and California Policy Watch, and More At a time when we are daily reminded through spreading drought and wildfires, and extreme weather events, that our climate crisis is here and now, we simply cannot afford to continue to squander our resources for another era of ...

Linking Our Movements Against Global Warming and Militarism2021-09-08T13:42:15-07:00
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