As pediatricians and trainees, we have all experienced moral awakenings that have compelled us to take action to protect children. As I step outside each day in San Francisco during the pandemic, putting on my mask reminds me of a time of moral awakening: the fall of 2018, when the Camp Fire raged through Paradise, ...
Supported: letter from California Certified Organic Farmers calling for an Organic Transition Option to be added to California’s Healthy Soils Program. Organic farming is better for human health and the environment because organic farmers are prohibited from using virtually all 900 synthetic pesticides. The Organic Transition Option would give farmers and ranchers a stipend to ...
Signed an organizational sign-on letter coordinated by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Public Health Institute and Trust for America's Health, to Vice President Pence, head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, urging a reversal of the recent revisions in CDC guidelines around COVID testing.
Submitted comments at the public hearing about the Lawrence Livermore National Lab site-wide environmental impact statement, which would lay-out the parameters for continued and expanded nuclear weapons activities at LLNL, commensurate with overall DOE plans to modernize and increase the lethality of our current arsenal.
Signed: CDC Employee Letter to Address Workplace Racism and Discrimination calling on CDC to take immediate, specific, and measurable actions to address the systemic racism that continues to undermine the mission of the CDC.
Dr. Robert M. Gould spoke on the Sojourner Truth Radio Show about the health impacts of the wildfires on West Coast communities.
Dr. Mary Williams presented a CME lecture, "Heat Climate Change & Dermatology" for the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health.
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Coates and Dr. Mary Williams for their recent publications in the International Journal of Women’s Dermatology: special issue on climate change
Congratulations to Dr. Tom Newman for receiving a 2019-2020 Outstanding Lecture Award from the UCSF School of Medicine for his lecture "The Health Emergency of our Changing Climate."
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 Read original newsletter email here. Our thoughts are with all those affected by the wildfires on the West Coast. As we move toward the precipice of the presidential election, we must set our sights on a Green New Deal. In this newsletter, we review the main goals a GND could ...
