April 4, 2025 Speech Given by SF Bay PSR President, Robert M. Gould, MD Standing Together for Health, Science, and Sanity Greetings to all of you, and thank you all for being here today to defend Science and Sanity. I’m Dr. Bob Gould. I’m President of the SF Bay chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. ...
Friday, March 7, 2025: Stand Up for Science rally at SF City Hall: thousands of scientists, health professionals and advocates from UCSF, other UC's, USF, Kaiser, Stanford, other universities and health centers, EPA, NOAA, etc. gathered together to protest the attacks on science and health. MARCH 20, 2025 Dear Friends, We have all been grappling ...
FEBRUARY 13, 2025 Dear Friends: This Valentine’s Day, show your LOVE for what truly matters: the health of our communities, our planet, and our democracy. We are in dark and dangerous times, and in such times, love means standing up for what’s right. At San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility (SF Bay PSR), we ...
FEBRUARY 5, 2025 We are thrilled to welcome our 2025 interns Sabrina Spatny, Daphney Saviotti-Orozco, and Shivangi Goswami! And we say thank you, farewell, and best wishes to our amazing 2024 interns Miguel Mercado, Navreet Purewal, and Kelly Lin. We asked our outgoing interns what they valued most about their experiences and where they plan ...
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." May this reflection by Martin Luther King Jr. provide a bit of solace. From the 2002 Coretta Scott King-edited book, In My Own Words. JANUARY 21, 2025 Dear Friends: We write today with heavy hearts for all of those affected by the fires in Los ...
DECEMBER 17, 2024 Dear Friends: Like you, we are worried about the continued horrors of human suffering and widespread attacks on healthcare providers and hospitals in the Middle East and Ukraine, and the lack of expertise and professionalism in the new administration nominees that could threaten military oversight and security, particularly around our lethal nuclear ...
DECEMBER 10, 2024 Dear Friends: As health advocates, we strive to prevent what we cannot cure, and we can still protect health at local and state levels, despite the new federal administration's threats to cut environmental protection funding. One of SF Bay PSR's most impactful efforts is to protect the health of our communities and ...
Join us! Left: Protesting for the abolition of nuclear weapons at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. Right: Tabling at a community fair to advocate for health protective policies and to educate the public about the health benefits of electric home appliances. DECEMBER 3, 2024 Dear Friends: Are you wondering how you can help to advance health- ...
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 Dear Friends: As many of you are probably feeling, we at SF Bay PSR are still recovering from the shock of the election. While our chapter celebrates many past successes, the incoming administration gravely threatens our planetary health and survival. Their heralded reversals of our climate change wins and expected acceleration of ...
OCTOBER 2024 We are thrilled to share below four impressive Emerging Health-Activist Awardees. The Awards were presented at our Annual Gala in September 2024! If you missed our Gala, you can watch it on our YouTube channel here! Congratulations to our Emerging Health-Activist Awardees! Allan Ndovu, MD, is an emergency medicine resident at Highland Hospital. ...
