Education
Education Projects
We’ve invested deeply in educating health professionals on our issues—health, racial, and social inequities, climate crisis, toxics, and nuclear weapons abolition—through dozens of presentations at medical schools, hospitals, and community events. We’ve also launched a new student internship to mentor and train young health professionals in leadership and policy advocacy.
To learn more about how to join our education efforts, please visit our Volunteer page.
MEDICAL SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Our members spearheaded the initial environmental health curriculum at the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford medical schools which has now grown to include many more faculty and students nationwide. These efforts include environmental health electives, student projects, and the ultimate goal of interweaving environmental health throughout the entire national medical school curriculum. The story was recently featured in the Huffington Post.
PUBLIC EDUCATION
SF Bay PSR members are dedicated to providing educational opportunities for the public such as courses, webinars, and panel discussions. Most recently, members developed and implemented the mini-medical school course for the public at UCSF, now available online, The Health Emergency of Climate Change.
INTERNSHIPS
Our internship program is designed to teach the next generation of health-care professionals activism, leadership, and advocacy skills in our areas of concentration: environmental health, social and racial justice, and nuclear weapons abolition. Student interns are directly supervised by the SF Bay PSR’s executive director and will be afforded mentorship opportunities by the chapter president, SF Bay PSR’s board of directors, and other members.
APPLICATION
Please email info@sfbaypsr.org for more information about our next application cycle.
REMEMBERING DR. TOM HALL
The internship program is made possible by a generous gift from the late Dr. Thomas Livingston Hall and his family. A dedicated PSR member, Tom received his MD and MPH from Harvard and was subsequently awarded a Doctor of Public Health in International Health from Johns Hopkins University, where he was on the faculty until 1971. Tom was also on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his health-related career involved providing clinical services in rural Puerto Rico, national health workforce planning studies via the World Health Organization, directing a population studies center at UNC, directing a health care planning office in Seattle, and several years of health planning in New Zealand. In 1986, Dr. Hall came to San Francisco, and from 1988 to 1996 he directed a postdoctoral training program in HIV/AIDS prevention research at UC San Francisco. After retirement, he volunteered to teach and mentor in global health, and until his death, he worked with the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.