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PSR Iowa installation of materials including posters, pamphlets, and assorted resources for more information about related topics: climate and health; climate and infectious disease; climate and clean water, etc.
Hear ten student finalists present essays based on this quote by Ms. Beatrice Fihn: “The story of nuclear weapons will have an ending, and it is up to us what the ending will be. Will it be the end of nuclear weapons or will it be the end of us?” $15,000 in scholarships will be awarded. Judges will be Bob Dodge, MD, Bob Gould, MD, and Ms. Sarah Pattison.
Greater Boston PSR’s monthly meeting – open to all.
Please contact Anna Baker at abaker@gbpsr.org for call-in information.
APHA and ecoAmerica are partnering to offer the Climate for Health Ambassadors Training Program. Join us for a free, interactive 4-hour training that will cover the links between climate and health, the spectrum of solutions, speaking effectively on the topic, and opportunities to act and advocate.
Upon completion of the full training and signing the Climate for Health Ambassadors Agreement (optional), public health professionals (and students!) will be given Climate for Health Ambassador designation. These leaders will be invited to be listed publicly as trained leaders who are available to present on climate and health.
Join Massachusetts Peace Action on Thursday May 12th at 7pm for a showing of The War Game, by Peter Watkins. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, this 45 minute film envisions an escalating war between NATO and the USSR resulting a nuclear attack on Great Britain.
We’re honored to have received a video montage and message from the filmmaker himself, Peter Watkins. After viewing the 45 minute film we’ll be joined by internationally recognized expert on nuclear weapons, Dr. Ira Helfand, to take your questions and lead a discussion.
A coalition of groups has called upon Congress to legislate – and the president to declare – that the United States will neither initiate nor threaten to initiate the first use of Nuclear Weapons. Greater Boston PSR is co-sponsoring an upcoming conference, Prohibiting the First Use of Nuclear Weapons, focused on the importance of passing No First Use. If you would like to learn more about this important issue and how you can help push policy makers to support this policy, register and attend the conference digitally on May 15, 2021 at 12:30 PM eastern time.
Join PSR PA to learn more about radon and how it contributes to poor indoor air quality. Presented by Dr. Edward Ketyer.
You’re invited! SF Bay PSR has launched an informal reading and discussion group to learn more about issues of structural racism and inequity, particularly as they negatively impact public health and medicine.
To join please email tara@sfbaypsr.org. All are welcome (not just health professionals).
Monthly Meeting
Physicians, health personnel and everyone; all are welcomed at our meetings held on the THIRD FRIDAY of each month!
New Instructions for Covid Meetings:
For more information contact Dr. Terry Clark, Chair, 633-0892 or Dr. Lew Patrie, 299-1242.
On April 11, 2021, Duante Wright, a Black man, was killed by a white police officer, just miles from where George Floyd was murdered. In 2020, someone was killed by a police officer almost every day of the year.
The highly respected medical journal, The Lancet, and the CDC both state that racism is a serious threat to public health. As healthcare professionals we know that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We need to direct more funds and efforts toward improving preventative systems, supporting communities, and advancing antiracism efforts, and away from policing and incarceration. Policing is supposed to protect, not threaten lives, and yet Black people are killed by police at 2.6 times the rate of white people. The constant stress and fear this causes as well as the trauma every time another person of color is killed, creates long-term health harms. Mass incarceration adds to this burden by harming more than rehabilitating. Learn how we can reform our social systems so that they protect public health.
We will explore these issues and more with expert guest speakers Zach Norris, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center and Dr. Jennifer James, bioethics researcher, professor, and Black feminist scholar at UCSF. Please join us.
Register here (registration opens May 1)