Resolutions & position papers

Environmental Health • National & Global Security • Gun Violence Prevention

Environmental Health
2007	California Medical Association Improving Health Through Sustainable Food Purchasing
2007	California Medical Association Modern Chemicals Policy
2005	California Medical Association Opposition to Cooperation of Physicians in Torture
2004	California Medical Association Reducing Major Sources of Diesel Exhaust
2004	California Medical Association Pesticides and Schools
2003	California Medical Association Scientific Credibility of Government Public Health Advisory Committees
2003	California Medical Association Toxicity of Computers and Electronics Waste
2002	California Medical Association Climate Change and Human Health
2002	California Medical Association Air Pollution, Energy, and Health
2001	California Medical Association DEHP Use in Neonatal Intensive Care Units Resolution
2000	California Medical Association Agricultural Pesticide Drift
2000	California Medical Association Preventing Human Mercury Exposure
2000	California Medical Association Farmworker Protection From Pesticides
2000	California Medical Association 2000 Mercury Resolution
1999	California Medical Association Healthy Schools
1998	California Medical Association PVC Plastic Use by Health Care Facilities
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National & Global Security
2007	American Academy of Pediatrics (proposed) Opposing New Nuclear Weapons and Saving the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
2006	APHA Resolution Opposing Iraq War
2006	California Medical Association (Proposed) Opposition to Development of New Nuclear Weapons
2005	California Medical Association Opposition to Cooperation of Physicians in Torture
2000	California Medical Association Avoiding Accidental Nuclear War
1997	California Medical Association Abolition of Weapons of Mass Destruction

2000	SF Bay Area PSR Position Statement on Nuclear Power

2005	National PSR Position Statement on Iraq
2004	National PSR Position Statement on Iraq
2003	National PSR Resolution on Biopreparedness and Smallpox Vaccination Plans
2002	National PSR’s Statement on Military Intervention in Iraq
2000	National PSR’s Resolution on Military Action Against Iraq and Economic Sanctions

2004	American Public Health Association: Affirming the Necessity of a Secure, Sustainable, and Health-Protective Energy Policy
2003	American Public Health Association: Strengthening the Fiscal Viability and Independence of Public Health While Responding to Terrorism
2003	American Public Health Association: Opposition to United States Plans for New Nuclear Weapons Development and Pre-emptive War
2002	American Public Health Association: APHA Policy on Smallpox Vaccination
2002	American Public Health Association: Preserving Right-To-Know Information and Encouraging Hazard Reduction to Reduce the Risk of Exposure to Toxic Substances
2002	American Public Health Association: Call for United States to Support a Strengthened Biological Weapons Convention
2001	American Public Health Association: Guiding Principles for a Public Health Response to Terrorism
2001	American Public Health Association: Opposition to National Missile Defense and the Militarization of Space
2000	American Public Health Association: Prevent, Response, and Trng for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, including Bioterrorism
1999	American Public Health Association: Anthrax Immunization
1999	American Public Health Association: Nuclear-Weapon-Free World
1999	American Public Health Association: Taking Nuclear Weapons Off Alert
1999	American Public Health Association: Declare Proposed National Permanent Nuclear Waste Repository Site Unsafe
1998	American Public Health Association: Cessation of Continued Development of Nuclear Weapons
1997	American Public Health Association: Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention
1996	American Public Health Association: Cessation of Nuclear Testing and Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
1992	American Public Health Association: Reducing and Monitoring the Use of Toxic Materials in Production by the Departments of Defense and Energy
1989	American Public Health Association: Delay of Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), A Nuclear Waste Repository, Until Safety Is Assured
1989	American Public Health Association: Public Health Hazards at Nuclear Weapons Facilities
1987	American Public Health Association: End to Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
1985	American Public Health Association: The Health Effects of Militarism (Position Paper)
1984	American Public Health Association: Accountability of the Nuclear Industry to State and Local Governments for Radiation Injuries
1983	American Public Health Association: Nuclear Testing and Dumping of Nuclear Waste Materials in the Pacific Ocean
1982	American Public Health Association: Reaction to the Attack in the Nuclear Freeze Movement
1981	American Public Health Association: Nuclear War and Nuclear Weapons
1981	American Public Health Association: Nuclear Accident Liability
1979	American Public Health Association: Nuclear Power
1979	American Public Health Association: World Peace and the Military Budget
1979	American Public Health Association: The Public Health Impact of Energy Policy
1976	American Public Health Association: Energy Development and Use
1974	American Public Health Association: Energy and the Environment
1971	American Public Health Association: Conflict of Interest in the Atomic Energy Commission
1969	American Public Health Association: Chemical and Biological Methods of Warfare
1967	American Public Health Association: Radiological Health in State and Local Public Health Programs
1961	American Public Health Association: Increased Radiological Monitoring of Public Water Supplies
1958	American Public Health Association: Responsibility for Protection Against Radioactive Substances

1996	American College of Physicians: Resoultion from the Board of Govenors, approved by the Board of Regents. Presented at: Meeting of the American College of Physicians, October 1996; Philadelphia, PA. (no link available)
1996	American Medical Association. House of Delegates Resolution 617 (I-96). Presented at: Meeting of the House of Delegates, American Medical Association, December 1996, Chicago, IL. (no link available)
1996	Statement on Nuclear Weapons by International Admirals and Generals
1997	The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons was established as an independent commission by the then Australian Government in November 1995 to propose practical steps towards a nuclear weapon free world including the related problem of maintaining stability and security during the transitional period and after this goal is achieved. The Nuclear Weapon Report.
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Gun Violence Prevention
2001	SF Bay Area PSR Position Statement on Firearms Violence Prevention
2001	UC Davis SPSR’s Response to Gun Violence
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