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Physicians for Social Responsibility

Overview
Headquarters: 
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Size: 
11-50 employees
Founded: 
1961
Annual Budget : 
$1-5M
Populations Served: 
All Populations
About Us
Mission: 

Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival. PSR mobilizes physicians and health professionals to advocate for climate solutions and a nuclear weapons-free world. PSR’s health advocates contribute a health voice to energy, environmental health and nuclear weapons policy at the local, federal and international level.

Programs: 

PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program amplifies the health professional voice to increase and broaden grassroots support for nuclear weapons abolition and to cultivate legislative initiatives to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons.

Long Term Goals

  1. Growing the Grassroots: Increasing popular support for key policy changes that will reduce the nuclear weapons threat and expanding PSR’s work with other justice movements—such as workers’ rights, environmental justice and voting rights.
  2. Amplifying the Health Voice: Recruiting prominent health voices to speak out on nuclear weapons dangers  and the urgent need to take steps toward abolition.
  3. Congress and Candidates: Cultivating champions in Congress for legislative action that will lead to the abolition of nuclear weapons.

PSR’s Environment and Health Program amplifies the voices of health professionals and other advocates on the catastrophic consequences of climate change and other environmental hazards to health.

Long Term Goals

  1. Support efforts at the local, state and federal level to oppose fracking, fracked-gas pipelines, compressor stations, and fossil fuel exports.
  2. Promote investment in clean, safe renewable energy and energy efficiency.
  3. Protect federal policies and programs that safeguard clean air and our climate.
  4. Educate and mobilize health professionals to speak about climate change as a health crisis.
Awards & Accolades: 
PSR shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).
Why Work For Us?: 

PSR is deeply committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, and believes social change happens when people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and identities come together with a common purpose.

PSR is committed to employment practices that ensure employees and applicants for employment are provided with equal opportunities, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, age, religion, disability, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws, as well as any other factor that is not relevant to job performance.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

 

industry: 
Nonprofit