Balanced Menus Campaign Update

Donors provided important support in August and September to continue and expand the Balanced Menus campaign.  SFPSR staff members Lena Brook and Lucia Sayre have been hard at work on expanding the reach of this project.  “Lena and Lucia have provided significant leadership in the Bay Area to educating and assisting health care facilities to [...]

Big Victories for Public and Environmental Health at the California Medical Association Convention

Aided by efforts of PSR members, numerous policies protective of public and environmental health were adopted at the recent California Medical Association (CMA) 138th Annual Session (October 15-19, 2009, Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim). This great outcome reflected a strong collaboration of local medical associations, hospital systems such as Kaiser, and professional organizations such as the American [...]

Press Release: National Balanced Menus Challenge Launch

September 23, 2009
Contact: Lena Brook, 415-601-0504, lena@sfbaypsr.org

Hospitals Reduce Climate Impact and Promote Health Through “Balanced Menus Challenge”
Hospitals Accept Challenge to Reduce Meat Offerings by 20 Percent in 12 Months
San Francisco Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility (SFPSR) has announced the “Balanced Menus Challenge,” a voluntary commitment by healthcare institutions [...]

Flea Collars for Pets Endanger Kids – Research by SF PSR Steering Committee member Dr. Gina Solomon in the San Francisco Chronicle 4/24/09

The original article can be found on SFGate.com here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/04/24/MN63177TIM.DTL
Friday, April 24, 2009 (SF Chronicle)
Group says flea collars for pets endanger kids
Jane Kay, Chronicle Environment Writer
(04-23) 15:12 PDT OAKLAND
Some cat and dog flea collars leave chemicals
on fur that are hazardous to the pets and their owners, in violation of California’s anti-toxics laws, according to a national [...]

SF PSR’s Healthy Foods in Hospitals work on All Things Considered today

A story on reducing carbon emissions by changing what you eat runs on NPR’s All Things Considered this afternoon, Wednesday April 22. SF PSR’s Healthy Foods in Hospitals work, and it’s connection to climate change through the development of the Balanced Menus program, will be featured. Dr. Robert Gould and staff of SF PSR [...]

SFPSR Steering Committee Member Dr. Sarah Janssen Cited in Article on Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals

Panel: EPA must consider effects of chemical barrage
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
Chemicals that interfere with the male hormone system are so common — and so potentially damaging — that the government should stop studying them one by one and consider their combined effect, an expert panel said Thursday.
Phthalates and other hormone-disrupting chemicals pollute the air, [...]

Drs Gina Solomon and Sarah Janssen of SFPSR to Teach Environment and Health Course at UCSF. Auditors Welcome

Environment and Health
Winter 2009; Wednesdays 5:00-7:00 PM
Room: Toland Hall (UC Hall, Room U-142, UCSF Parnassus)
1 unit (5 sessions) through M170C Department of Medicine
OR
2 units (10 sessions) through N248 School of Nursing
Auditors Welcome
Faculty of Record:
Gina Solomon, MD, MPH, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine gina.solomon@ucsf.edu
Barbara Burgel, RN, PhD, FAAN, Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing Program: Barbara.burgel@nursing.ucsf.edu [...]

Public Health Expert Dr. Dick Jackson To Speak At DEC. 15th SFPSR Event–Please Join Us

SF Bay Area Physicians For Social Responsibility

December Event
Join Us Monday December 15th at 6:30 PM
-Hear a talk by UCLA Professor and public health expert Dr. Dick Jackson
-Meet SF PSR Staff and Steering Committee
-Mingle with other PSR Members
-Hear about our chapter activities and how to get involved
Where: At the home (1515 16th Ave., SF) of [...]

SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould To Be Heard On KPFA Radio 94.1 Today, November 7

Dr. Gould will appear on KPFA Radio (94.1) 1-1:30 this afternoon (Nov. 7) to discuss the Environmental/Public health impacts of the nuclear weapons complex.

SF Bay PSR Steering Committee Member Dr. Sarah Janssen To Speak At Food As Medicine Event Wed. 11-22

Food as Medicine: Health and Food Safety
MLF: Bay Gourmet
Location: Ferry Building Port Commission Hearing Room on the 2nd Floor of the Ferry Building
Time: 6:30 p.m. check-in, 7 p.m. program
Cost: $8 Club/CAFF/Slow Food members, $15 non-members
Program Organizer: Cathy Curtis
Also know: In association with the Community Alliance for Family Farmers (CAFF)
Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director, Center for [...]