The elimination of all nuclear weapons is an urgent medical, humanitarian, and public health imperative.
Peace and Health Blog
- The story of “A First Time”by IPPNW on November 2, 2023 at 4:56 pm
Drs. David Onazi and Sally Ndung’u at the World Medical Association General Assembly 2023 By Dr. David Onazi, IPPNW Co-President The FIRST TIME I became one of the co-presidents of IPPNW in April 2023 my passion was reborn to play a vital role in our cause for a nuclear free planet. It then became apparent
- Our goal must be peace, health, and the security of all peopleby IPPNW on October 31, 2023 at 2:26 pm
[The following letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres was sent by IPPNW’s co-presidents in response to his speech on 13 October, in which he said “[T]he grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”] October 28, 2023 Dear
- Time to abandon international anarchy?by Lawrence Wittner on October 24, 2023 at 8:06 pm
In December 1934, Arthur Henderson, a leader of the British Labour Party, declared in his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize that the immense human suffering caused by World War I “led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.” Unfortunately, that realization did not go very far or
- IPPNW: “A fascinating case study of the power of medicalization”by IPPNW on October 23, 2023 at 8:20 pm
[Dr. Scott Podolsky is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since 2006, he has served as the director of the Center for the History of Medicine based at the Countway Medical Library. He delivered the following remarks at an event co-sponsored by
- “Reducing the risks of nuclear war—the role of health professionals”: the editorial’s impactby IPPNW on October 13, 2023 at 5:55 pm
[In August, IPPNW reported that more than 100 (now more than 150) medical journals, including the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA published a joint editorial entitled “Reducing the risks of nuclear war — the role of health professionals.” One of the authors of the editorial, Dr Chris Zielinski,
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In March, IPPNW established a new office in Geneva, the “Peace Capital” of the world. IPPNW’s Policy Director, Chuck Johnson, is overseeing Geneva operations to ramp up our efforts to collaborate with the United Nations and our international health organizations.
The time is ripe for our message to be heard and understood. Eliminating all nuclear weapons is an urgent humanitarian and environmental imperative. Setting up a liaison office in Geneva is a logical next step in strengthening IPPNW’s global network of 55 national affiliates and our partners in the health community worldwide.
On April 13, Dr. Ira Helfand, IPPNW immediate past-President, was awarded the prestigious Morehouse College Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders’ Prize “to recognize and pay tribute to [his] passionate and nonviolent struggle to prevent humanity from falling victim to the horrors of nuclear disaster.”
Dr. Helfand gave the keynote address in the MLK Chapel at Morehouse. His remarks can be found in full here and below.