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Today, PSR is joining with dozens of organizations, representing millions of Americans, calling on the U.S. Senate to pass clean energy and climate legislation. Please tell your Senators that we can no longer delay action if we are to protect our health and the health of future generations from catastrophic climate change.
Ira Helfand, MD
City, State: Leeds, Massachusetts
Medical Specialty: Emergency Medicine
PSR Affiliation: Member, National PSR Board of Directors
Professional Affiliation: North American Vice-President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Areas of Expertise:
- Nuclear power, nuclear waste, radiation exposure
- Iran nuclear crisis
- Nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament
- Nuclear war, terrorism and preparedness
- Nuclear waste reprocessing
Publications:
Accidental Nuclear War—A Post Cold War Assessment, Forrow L, Blair B, Helfand I, et al, New England Journal of Medicine 4/30/98
Nuclear Terrorism, Helfand I, Forrow L, Tiwari J, British Medical Journal, 2/9/2002
Projected US Casualties and Destruction of US Medical Services from Attacks by Russian Nuclear Forces, Helfand I, Forrow L, McCally M, Musil RK, Medicine and Global Survival, 2/2002
The United States and Nuclear Terrorism: Still Dangerously Unprepared, Ira Helfand MD, Andrew Kantor MD, Michael McCally MD, Kimberly Roberts, Jaya Tiwari 8/2006
An Assessment of the Extent of Projected Global Famine Resulting from Limited, Regional Nuclear War, Ira Helfand, MD, presented at Royal Society of Medicine, London 10/2007
In the Spotlight
January 7, 2010
Healthy People, Healthy Planet
Greater Boston PSR's Dr. Dick Clapp (a professor at the BU SPH) and speaker Jill Stein MD at Boston University Medical School taping of Healthy People, Healthy Planet for University of Delaware Nursing School course.
