JUNE 1, 2023 THANK YOU to everyone who gave to our Dr. Tom Hall Student and Young Professionals Fund! It's never too late to give, click here! CONGRATULATIONS to the following SF Bay PSR awardees and interns: Dr. Karly Hampshire, pictured above, for graduating from UC San Francisco with her MD, receiving the the 2023 ...
April 2023 Below please find updates on Emerging Health Professional Activist Projects that SF Bay PSR has supported recently through the Dr. Tom Hall Student and Young Professionals Fund. Please consider a donation to support our future leaders. Donate here. The fund was started with a generous bequest by Dr. Tom Hall, professor of epidemiology ...
March 2023 We are thrilled to welcome our 2023 intern Sienna Marley! And we say thank you, farewell, and best wishes to our 2022 intern Allie Smith. Please take a moment to read about these two inspiring emerging health activist voices! Farewell to our 2022 Intern Allie Smith! 1. I am so grateful that this ...
OCTOBER 13, 2022 Young Health Activists Give Us Hope We are thrilled to share below four impressive Young Health Activist Awardees and information about our exciting intern, student, and early career projects. The Young Health Activist Awards were presented at our Annual Gala last month! If you missed the Gala, you can watch it here. ...
Bravo to SF Bay PSR Board Members Dr. Tova Fuller and Dr. Michael J. Martin for their recent op-ed in the SF Chronicle March 15, 2022! Dear Friends, This is why I came back. Because PSR has always connected the dots. And that is why, after four decades, SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility ...
At the beginning of the year we said farewell to our wonderful Managing Consultant Randall Miller, PhD, who capably served SF Bay PSR for two years. We are grateful to Randall for his leadership and work to reinvigorate our programming, expand our communications, and help us to learn and integrate equity and justice into all ...
SF Bay PSR’s Divestment/Investment Task Force has been steadily pushing the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), which manages pensions for 1.6 million workers, to divest from fossil fuels. READ our most recent letter sent to the CalPERS board before their Nov 15–17 meeting, written by Dr. Robert M. Gould, past-President and current member of ...
Congrats to SF Bay PSR Committee Member Dr. Robin Cooper for officially being recognized as an ally and partner of Climate Psychiatry Alliance. She co-wrote with medical student Rei Takver, "Climate Psychiatry 101 Overview," an educational overview of the mental health aspects of climate change. Also, are you looking for that perfect holiday gift for a ...
Bravo to SF Bay PSR Committee Member Dr. David Bezanson for extraordinary work advocating for the CalPERS board to consider divesting from fossil fuels, and helping to pass AB 1346 that will phase out the sale of gas-powered leaf blowers, lawn mowers and other small off-road engines in California by 2024.
READ his a letter to the editor, "Cows are the Problem," in the San Francisco Chronicle.
