About Us

Mission

Guided by the expertise of medicine and public health

SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival. Consequently, we promote public policies that protect human health from the threats of nuclear war and other weapons of mass destruction, global environmental degradation, climate change, the epidemic of gun violence, and other social injustices in our society today.

History

FOUNDED IN 1979

San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility (SF Bay PSR), founded in 1979, is a nonprofit education and advocacy organization that combines the power of community activism with the knowledge and credibility of health professionals to promote public policies that support human and environmental health. Our work is anchored in our central concerns for racial, social, and environmental justice.

Our chapter was originally founded to organize physician and other health professionals to advocate for the end of the nuclear arms race and the abolition of nuclear weapons. In the early 1990s, we broadened our mission to include the existential threats posed by our looming climate crisis and related toxic degradation of our web of life.

SF Bay PSR was the first PSR chapter to be organized in the U.S. and it remains one of the largest of the 24 U.S. PSR chapters. Please explore Our Work for more information about our programs and to learn how to become actively engaged in our chapter activities. We invite you to become part of the change needed to survive and thrive as a species in harmony with our planet.

Team

WE VALUE COLLABORATION AND INCLUSION

We’re expanding our board and staff with an eye toward assembling a talented and diverse team of professionals and building bridges to marginalized and underrepresented communities.

WE’RE BUILDING AN ACTIVIST NETWORK

In close collaboration with a wide network of allies in climate, toxics, nuclear weapons, and social justice, we’re leveraging the voices and influence of health professionals by writing op-eds, joining sign-on letters, and engaging in meetings with policymakers at local, state, and national levels.

WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU

Need a health professional’s expert perspective—our members are available for interviews. Please contact action@sfbaypsr.org.

Internships

MENTORSHIP AND TRAINING

Learn activism, leadership, and advocacy skills in our areas of concentration: environmental health, social and racial justice, and nuclear abolition. Student interns are directly supervised by the SF Bay PSR’s executive director and will be afforded mentorship opportunities by the chapter president, members of SF Bay PSR’s board of directors, and other members.

SF BAY PSR IS A CHAPTER OF PSR NATIONAL.

Founded in 1961, PSR National mobilizes physicians and health professionals to advocate for policies to address climate solutions and a nuclear weapons-free world at the local, federal, and international level.

INFO@SFBAYPSR.ORG

Physicians for Social Responsibility
San Francisco Bay Chapter
548 Market Street, #90725
San Francisco, CA 94104