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09/23/2026

Are you looking to connect with Boston area health, climate, and disarmament leaders? Join IPPNW and Greater Boston PSR in Harvard Square next month for our 9th annual Global Health and Peace Awards!

This year's event will honor Archbishop Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico for his powerful leadership toward the effort to abolish nuclear weapons as a moral, spiritual, and humanitarian imperative.

Purchase your ticket now for an evening to connect over live music, local Afghani food, and a shared commitment to life. 🕊

Tickets are selling fast! Don't delay: https://gbpsr.org/get-involved/annual-event/2026-annual-global-health-and-peace-awards/

09/22/2026

"When children are empowered to understand, reflect, communicate, and act, they become participants in building a culture that rejects unacceptable harm and values human life."

📚Read the new article on building peace through humanitarian disarmament education by Dr. Ghassan Shahrour on our Peace and Health Blog.

Documenting grassroots awareness sessions on the remnants of war at school in Syria. Educational magazine Bunat Al-Ajyal features article “From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Child to Child Messages…

09/22/2026

How would the medical community respond in a nuclear attack?

In Module 4 of our Global Classroom, Dr. Åsa Lindström with IPPNW Sweden () took a look at a scenario of nuclear detonation over Stockholm to see what kind of healthcare would be possible in the aftermath.

The answer? It wouldn't be possible to have an adequate medical response to address the catastrophic scale of injury and destruction.

Watch the full session to see what the research tells us. Follow along with our global classroom and make sure you tune into our next session: IPPNW.org/Global-Classroom.

09/21/2026

Peace doesn’t just happen in ornate rooms behind closed doors, it happens every day when we engage conversations, build fellowship and prioritize sustainability. September 21st is the International Day of Peace, we want to recognize all peace-builders in the IPPNW community.

Peace is a social determinant of health. Without it, public health erodes. As medical professionals, IPPNW is as dedicated to our responsibility to build peace as we are to building health.

Each one of the tens of thousands of medical professionals, medical students, and activists in the IPPNW community is building peace through advocating for a world without nuclear weapons, preventing violence, and building health both locally and globally. Thank you!

09/18/2026

IPPNW leaders Dr. Sally Ndung'u, Dr. Dennis Opondo, and IPPNW-GLO Policy Director Chuck Johnson joined the 18th World Congress on Public Health in Cape Town, South Africa, held under the theme "Health without Borders: Equity, Inclusion, and Sustainability."

The Congress convened leading health professionals from around the globe to tackle some of today's most urgent public health challenges, including recovering from and preventing violent conflict.

🗣Dr. Ndung'u took part in a plenary panel on “Public Health in Conflict, War, and Peace Building,” focusing on maternal and children’s health and highlighting violence prevention as a critical and often underrecognized tool for improving public health outcomes.

🌱Dr. Opondo spoke at a side event where he emphasized the importance of educating young health workers, through programs such as Medical Peace Work, to advance peace and health advocacy, as part of health worker education.

⚕Throughout the Congress, they underscored IPPNW's continued commitment to linking public health with peacebuilding, equity, and the next generation of global health leadership.

09/17/2026

"The seed of disarmament is planted when societies refuse to glorify violence and choose instead to honor the dignity of every person."

Read the new article by Dr. Ghassan Shahrour on our Peace and Health Blog!

At the International Sharjah Conference on Landmines and Remnants of War (8–9 December 2003, UAE), humanitarian disarmament was the main focus. [Ghassan Shahrour, AHSN] In the nineteenth century, w…

09/16/2026

At the first International Meeting on Victim Assistance and Environmental Remediation, IPPNW's Program Director, Molly McGinty, called out the current scale of programs that offer assistance to communities affected by nuclear weapons.

Nuclear Weapons have imposed severe humanitarian consequences on communities and lands from uranium mining and production all the way through testing and use. Victims of the nuclear age deserve comprehensive assistance that meets their needs, implemented in consultation with affected community members. IPPNW will continue speaking out on nuclear justice and uplifting the voices of survivors.

Find our full set of recommendations to the meeting on PeaceAndHealthBlog.com

09/15/2026

🚨The IPPNW Extinction Medicine Reading Group is back!🚨

Join IPPNW's medical student movement this Saturday, September 19, 11:30 AM EDT, in collaboration with the Ethics of Human Extinction Reading Group for the opening keynote by Dr. Marina Nord. This is the first session of our group on Democracy, Autocracy, and Extinction Risk, which will examine how current trends in political systems and extinction risk converge.

Dr. Nord is one of the world’s foremost experts on the decline of democracy globally and in the US. Per her empirical, co-authored, Democracy Report 2026: a global majority now lives in autocratic regimes. Join us Saturday to hear from her!

Sessions will take place every first and third Saturday at 11:30 am EDT. Later in the fall, the second series, Nuclear Weapons: Health Intersections and Prohibition, will focus on the work of IPPNW. Stay tuned for some fantastic speakers and readings!

Register: tinyurl.com/yr5cvycz

09/14/2026

We believe in a world free from nuclear weapons for the health of our patients, our communities, and our planet.

Together, we have a common-sense plan for their complete, irreversible elimination through the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Curious? Learn more: IPPNW.org

09/10/2026

30 years ago, the UN General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty(CTBT).

Although 9 critical states withhold ratification, stopping the treaty from entering into force, the treaty remains a key part of the nuclear diplomacy landscape. The CTBT strengthens the global norm against nuclear tests and it established the International Monitoring System, watchdogs for nuclear explosions around the world.

Learn more with Xanthe Hall's latest look inside nuclear diplomacy on Peace and Health:

Negotiations begin on the CTBT in Geneva. Image: CTBTO The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was adopted on this day — 10 September 1996 — by a vote in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)…