Environmental Health

Health and Security

Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit

Endorsed by
the American Academy of Pediatrics

Downloadable materials

Nuclear Famine Could Kill More than One Billion

Physician and PSR Board member Dr. Ira Helfand has written a paper arguing that even a limited use of nuclear weapons could cost more than a billion lives globally.

See Nuclear Famine

Toolkit Training Program
for Health Care Providers

View or download
the Powerpoint Training Program document

Consequences of a War with Iran

PSR is working to use its medical voice to educate the public about the likely human consequences of a war with Iran.

See War is Not the Answer: The Medical and Public Health Consequences of Attacking Iran

Ask the Researcher

This month's featured researcher is Jennifer Schlezinger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health,
BU School of Public Health.

Dr. Schlezinger’s studies focus on how environmental chemicals impair the function of the immune system.

Learn about the Boston University Superfund Basic Research Program and then... Ask the Researcher!

The U.S. and Nuclear Terrorism:
Still Dangerously Unprepared

Six years after September 11, 2001 the United States remains dangerously unprepared to deal with the aftermath of a terrorist attack involving nuclear weapons, dirty bombs or explosions at nuclear power plants.

View the Physicians for Social Responsibility report that says better planning could prevent thousands of deaths.