“We must keep the horrors of Hiroshima in view at all times, recognizing there is only one solution to the nuclear threat: not to have nuclear weapons at all.”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Aug. 6, 2022

Ira Helfand
Dr. Helfand will be discussing the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) report Nuclear Famine: 2 Billion at Risk?, which he co-authored. The report outlines the global health consequences of regional nuclear war.

Ira Helfand, MD is co-chair of Physicians for Social Responsibility’s (PSR) Nuclear Weapons Abolition Committee and also serves as co-president of PSR’s global federation, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). IPPNW was recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. Helfand has worked for many years as an emergency room physician and now practices internal medicine at an urgent care center. Dr. Helfand represents IPPNW at the annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. He is also a member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)’s International Steering Committee. He was a leading medical voice in ICAN’s campaign for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. ICAN was recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. Helfand addressed national delegations at international conferences on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Oslo, Norway, Narayit, Mexico, and Vienna, Austria, during the May 2016 U.N. Open-Ended Working Group on disarmament in Geneva, and throughout the U.N. General Assembly negotiations in 2017.
 

Distinguished guests
Boy Scout Troop 400 Color Guard
Whitefish Bay High School Model UN
Matthew Haberkorn, Coordinator of the WFB High School Model UN

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