Full-time

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.

• Support efforts at the local, state, and federal level to oppose fracking, fracked-gas pipelines, compressor stations, and fossil fuel exports.
• Promote investment in clean, safe renewable energy and energy efficiency.
• Protect federal policies and programs that safeguard clean air and our climate.
• Educate and mobilize health professionals to speak about climate change as a health crisis.

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.

• 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.
• Amplifying the Health Voice: Recruiting prominent health voices to speak out on nuclear weapons dangers and the urgent need to take steps toward abolition.
• Congress and Candidates: Cultivating champions in Congress for legislative action that will reprioritize the federal budget and lead to the abolition of nuclear weapons.