AUGUST 16, 2025 Dear Jane, Look up and be dazzled by a blue sky, drink a glass of clean water, and savor a delicious dinner of wholesome food. What you are seeing and tasting is a direct result of public policy. Who gets to see a blue sky, drink clean water, and eat healthy food ...
AUGUST 2, 2025 Dear Friends, It’s now 80 years since our Atomic Age commenced with the Trinity Test in New Mexico that soon fueled the nuclear obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the deaths by the end of 1945 at approximately 200,000 human beings, and with those fortunate to survive – the Hibakusha – left ...
JUNE 18, 2025 Dear Friends, SF Bay PSR strongly supports the June 13 statement from International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Iran. As American healthcare professionals, we recognize the critical diplomatic role our country can play in ending this war and preventing further damage to ...
San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility's Building Electrification Program educates the public and policy makers about the health harms of air pollution from gas home appliances and the benefits of cleaner, healthier, and more efficient electric appliances. Below is just one example of a project that we have worked on over the past ...
APRIL 22, 2025 Dear Friends: This Earth Month, we are in a moment of crisis—and clarity. Give before APRIL 30 and your donation to SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility will go directly to the Dr. Tom Hall Student and Young Professionals Fund, supporting the next generation of health professionals working at the intersection of ...
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 ...
"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 ...
