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 [...]
Archive for the 'Food Sustainability' Category
Balanced Menus Campaign Update
November 3, 2009Press Release: National Balanced Menus Challenge Launch
September 23, 2009September 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 [...]
Balanced Menus Program
August 25, 2009Balance Menus Leaders
UCSF Medical Center
John Muir Health System
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
San Francisco VA Medical Center
NPR’s Story on Low Carbon Diets
April 23, 2009On yesterday’s All Things Considered (NPR), SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould was interviewed in a story on low-carbon diets. Listen to it (the print version is truncated and somewhat inaccurate) at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103375820
SF PSR’s Healthy Foods in Hospitals work on All Things Considered today
April 22, 2009A 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 [...]
Public Health Expert Dr. Dick Jackson To Speak At DEC. 15th SFPSR Event–Please Join Us
December 11, 2008SF 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 [...]
Susan Allport To Be Keynote Speaker AT SF Bay PSR-Sponsored Food Sustainability Event
February 20, 2008In honor of National nutrition Month
A Sustainable Food in Health Care Roundtable
MARCH 5, 2008
2 – 5pm
Ginn House in Preservation Park
660 13th Street, at MLK Jr. Way
Oakland
Featuring: A panel discussion with the Bay Area’s Hospital Leadership Team, a group of progressive Food Service Managers and Chefs determined to redefine the meaning of [...]
SF Bay PSR Program Associate Lena Brook Publishes Letter In San Francisco Chronicle
January 23, 2008Our Food Fueled Growth of Super Bacteria
January 23, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle
Lena Brook, SF Bay PSR program associate and Coordinator of the California Food Work Group, published a letter in today’s Chronicle in response to a January 20th article: “Bacteria Race Ahead of Drugs” about the increased resistance of common pathogenic bacteria to antibiotics.
She takes [...]
A Look Back At 2007: Policy Work With The California Medical Association
January 14, 2008A quick look back to 2007 reveals significant success by our chapter in getting two important resolutions through the California Medical Association (CMA).
Along with Lucy Crain, MD, Chapter President Robert Gould, MD authored “Modern Chemicals Policy,” a resolution which addresses the burgeoning scientific literature on the effects of industrial chemicals on public health. The [...]
