PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Psr's nuclear weapons abolition program educates the medical and broader community about the need to improve national policy formulation and decision-making on nuclear weapons and technology matters. Psr articulates both the health threats and the threats to peace posed by nuclear weapons and presses for reduced u.s. Reliance on nuclear weapons in national security policy.

Psr's chapters carry out psr's mission and priorities at the local level. They work to gain support for psr priorities and legislative goals; promote psr's presence, programs, and priorities in the local medical community and in the community at large; actively recruit new psr members, support membership retention, and develop members into activists through mutual support and encouragement and through local outreach and organizing efforts. They mentor and support medical students and student chapters where possible.

Student psr (spsr) inspires medical students to participate in advocacy, activism, and engagement as an essential component of their training and professional life. By introducing medical students to activism, providing them with avenues of engagement, and giving them real-world experience, spsr prepares future generations of physicians to engage in issues of global importance.