Full-time

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.