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 ...
"Every step we take to move the world toward peace, health, equity, and justice gives us hope for our children and grandchildren's future. That is why I give to SF Bay PSR!" Patrice Sutton, co-chair of SF Bay PSR's Environmental Health Committee DECEMBER 20, 2023 This holiday season, investing in our future is a gift ...
November 1, 2023 Health Care and Public Health Professionals Call to Immediate Action to Address the Violence in Israel and Gaza and Its Health Consequences Initiated by the Peace Caucus in affiliation with the American Public Health Association (APHA) As health care and public health professionals, we unequivocally condemn terrorist attacks against civilians and violence ...
March 2023 SF Bay PSR provides community-led projects with financial, administrative, and scientific support to honor our commitment to environmental justice organizations throughout the Bay Area. Marin City Climate Resilience and Health Justice (MCCRHJ) is an African-American led environmental justice organization comprised of community members and allies advocating for climate resilience and health justice. Their ...
MARCH 14, 2023 Advocating for health-based solutions to our world's crises for more than 40 years! I am pleased to reach out to you with SF Bay PSR’s 2023 Map, now that the CA legislative session is under way, and we've set our 2023 goals. We invite you to join us! Never before have we ...
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 ...
San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility (SF Bay PSR) strongly opposes the Supreme Court ruling to overturn the 50-year legal decision recognizing the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. We stand with our colleagues in national and state medical organizations (ACOG, AMA, and CMA) as well as public health (APHA), who, along with ...
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 ...
June 15, 2021 PSR MEMBER NEWS, ANTI-NUCLEAR AND CALIFORNIA POLICY WATCH, AND MORE How do we heal? At SF Bay PSR we are constantly asking this question as we look through a public-health lens at our intertwined core issues: the environment, climate, racial and social injustice, and nuclear weapons abolition. We ...
APRIL 29, 2021 POLICY WATCH, ACTIONS, EVENTS, PSR MEMBERS NEWS, READINGS & RESOURCES, AND MORE SF Bay PSR goes beyond policy advocacy with a diverse array of projects designed to nurture a paradigm shift in the way we as a society approach the environment, health, and security. However, policy advocacy is ...
