We Must Prevent

What We Cannot Cure

Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, we work to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival.

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Nuclear Weapons Abolition

PSR's Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program amplifies the health professional voice to increase and broaden grassroots support for nuclear weapons abolition.

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years left to avert the worst effects of climate change, according to the IPCC

Environment & Health

PSR's Environment and Health Program amplifies the voices of health professionals to advocate for strong action to avert catastrophic climate change and promote clean, healthy, safe energy.

Recent News

Take action on a bipartisan effort to improve indoor air quality!

A new bipartisan bill would open up a path for EPA regulation and funding of indoor air quality that would protect the health of all Americans. Tell your Representative to support the Indoor Air Quality and Healthy Schools Act!

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Order your Vot-ER badge to help patients register to vote!

The Vot-ER Badge is a free, fast, nonpartisan, HIPAA-compliant badge backer to impact your patient’s health beyond the medical care that they receive.

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Hiroshima-Nagasaki Events Reflect an Outpouring of Concern

The wide variety of activities and events — including vigils, film screenings, public gatherings, art exhibitions, nonviolent direct actions and Toro Nagashi lantern floating ceremonies — share a common theme: Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Never Again! 

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New Resource: Silent Contamination Timeline 

Silent Contamination is an interactive timeline that explores Native American involvement in the nuclear industry and the consequences that have followed.

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We Need Your Help

PSR advocates on the issues you care about by addressing the dangers that threaten communities, using our medical and public health expertise to prevent nuclear war and proliferation, reverse our trajectory towards climate change, protect the public from the harms of fracking and expand clean, renewable energy.

Upcoming Events

Sep 13

2024

Join PSR in Washington, DC as we gather in-person to celebrate the successes you make possible in advocating for Nuclear Weapons Abolition and promoting Environment and Health. We will be honoring those that empower PSR's work which allow us to protect people from the gravest threats to us and our planet.

Global Week of Action on Nuclear Spending

September 16 - September 22

From September 16 – 22, 2024 activists from around the world will join together in a week of action against nuclear weapons spending.

A Year Later: Have Leaders Addressed Health Concerns from the Pitt Studies?

September 19 @ 6:00 pm EDT

PSR Pennsylvania webinar on the University of Pittsburgh study showing health impacts on people living near fossil fuel wells in Pennsylvania.

The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It

September 19 @ 7:00 pm PDT
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA United States

San Francisco Bay PSR will co-host this conversation with author Genevieve Guenther at City Lights Bookstore. Virtual option available.

Featured Report

Fracking with “Forever Chemicals” in West Virginia

Information unearthed and analyzed by PSR shows that since 2013, oil and gas companies have hydraulically fractured or "fracked" some West Virginia natural gas wells with a class of extremely toxic and persistent chemicals known as PFAS.

Get Involved

PSR has local chapters throughout the United States. Find your local chapter to see how you can help your community. 

2024 Health Heroes Awards