IPPNW affiliates are national medical organizations with a common commitment to the IPPNW was founded in 1980 by physicians from the United States and the Soviet Union who shared a common commitment to the prevention of nuclear war between their two countries.The doctors sounded a medical warning to humanity: that nuclear war would be the final epidemic; that there would be no cure and no meaningful medical response. IPPNW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
We will keep you updated about new dates and other practical arrangements. The 23rd IPPNW World Congress in Mombasa has been temporarily postponed due to the Coronavirus public health crisis and its impact on global travel restrictions. Their message reached millions of people around the world. Dowrick rightly identifies Australia’s failure to invest financially in peace rather than war. Australia has failed to invest in peace, rather than scourge of war. “Some of the old-guard anti-nuclear leaders back then [during the 1980s] were early responders to our requests to join a statewide coalition and have been some of the most engaged folks,” Amundson told … In the words of former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, "IPPNW made medical reality a part of political reality." IPPNW is committed to ending war and to addressing the causes of armed conflict from a public health perspective. Doctors in India and Pakistan are campaigning against the threat of nuclear war between the two countries.
The climate findings and an updated summary of the medical consequences of nuclear war are available in an IPPNW publication, In recent years, IPPNW and its affiliates have drawn new attention to the health and environmental effects of uranium mining and processing, conducting community health surveys in India and challenging Australia's plans to ramp up its uranium export industry. The global campaign to ban landmines marked IPPNW's first major entry into the non-nuclear arena.
The organization's headquarters is in Malden, Massachusetts. IPPNW supports and encourages academic work to advance the understanding of the interconnections between peace and health. International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) is a non-partisan federation of national medical groups in 63 countries, representing doctors, medical students, other health workers, and concerned people who share the common goal of creating a more peaceful and secure world free from the threat of nuclear annihilation. In its first five years, IPPNW, working closely with its US affiliate Although the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US and Russia retained thousands of nuclear weapons ready to launch at a moment's notice. In the 1990s, IPPNW expanded its scope to address the continuum of armed violence that undermines health and security. The campaigns have been spearheaded by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and its affiliates, and the group has sent a letter to the Indian prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf. Updates will also be available at Dr. James Muller, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is a co-founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War — … A final decision on the parallel uranium conference in Mombasa is yet to be made. During the 1990s, IPPNW established an International Commission to Investigate the Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Production and Testing and worked with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research to document these effects. IPPNW physicians engaged in a global education campaign about the medical effects of nuclear explosions and warned the public and the leaders of the nuclear superpowers that the medical profession would be … Full marks for Stephanie Dowrick’s article “War — what is it good for?” (July 21, Forum p10). The Commission produced a series of books including In October 2007, IPPNW and the Royal Society of Medicine co-sponsored a major conference in London to review the current state of knowledge about nuclear weapons effects. In 2010, the federation's international council passed a resolution calling for a global ban on uranium mining because of the dangers it poses to health and the environment. Bruce Amundson, WPSR’s vice president and co-chair of our Nuclear Weapons Abolition Task Force, is a former family physician, and was the catalyst for WPSR’s anti-nuclear weapons coalition. In the early 1980s, escalating threats by the US and Soviet Union that they might attempt to fight and win a nuclear war led to the formation of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.