Reserve your seats for Oregon PSR's Annual Dinner featuring keynote speaker, "unembedded" journalist Dahr Jamail and honoring winners of the second annual Greenfield Peace Writing Contest for Oregon high school students. Music by Retta and the Smart Fellas. Make your reservations now to join us at the Oregon Zoo, April 10, 2010. Read more
Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival. PSR is the medical and public health voice working to prevent the use or spread of nuclear weapons and to slow, stop and reverse global warming and toxic degradation of the environment. PSR is the U.S. affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
Peace
Oregon PSR works to end the threat of nuclear weapons, educate about the health effects of war and encourage young people to consider their role in creating a peaceful future through our peace writing contest.
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Environmental Health
We are exposed to toxicants in the environment every day, through eating, drinking, inhaling, or absorbing them. More than four billion pounds of Toxic Release Inventory chemicals were emitted in 2006 in the United States, with nearly 10 million pounds emitted in Oregon.
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Global Warming
Oregon PSR supports the goal of 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emission by the year 2050, a level called for by atmospheric scientists who are the most involved in studying the problem.
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Campaign for Safe Food
The Oregon chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility initiated the Campaign for Safe Food October 1, 2003.
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Health Care Without Harm Program
The Oregon Health Care Without Harm Program works with Oregon healthcare facilities on sustainability and greening of buildings and operations. Program areas include sustainable food systems, clinical advocacy and sustainable hospitals.
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Healthy Food in Healthcare featured in Edible Portland
Learn about PSR's work with hospitals to take the healthy food pledge (pg 46)
PSR Peace Writing Contest Now Open
In a world where we struggle with wars, injustice, violence in our communities, and the threat of environmental devastation,….what does peace mean to you?
An op-ed coauthored by Maye Thompson, RN, environmental health program director for Oregon PSR, on the health risks of bisphenol A.
Source: The Oregonian
War and Global Health Conference
Registration is now open for the 8th annual Western Regional International Health Conference, April 23-25, 2010 in Seattle, WA
Oregon PSR Annual Peace Writing Contest Awards Dinner
Reserve your seats now for Oregon PSR's Annual Dinner featuring keynote speaker Dahr Jamail and winners of the second annual peace writing contest for high school students.
Join us in building a healthy environment and promoting sensible security policies. Make a donation to PSR Oregon today
Make your voice heard on Hanford
Contact Breyers and Dreyer’s ice cream asking them to go rBGH-free
Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
The Toolkit is a combination of easy-to-use reference guides for health providers and user-friendly health education materials on preventing exposures to toxic chemicals and other substances that affect infant and child health. Read more »
Minimize Waste, Oppose Incineration
Resources Promoting Waste Minimization and Opposing Incineration Compiled by Joseph Miller, Oregon PSR Read more »
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