REDUCING THE RISKS OF NUCLEAR WAR—THE ROLE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Kamran Abbasi; Parveen Ali; Virginia Barbour; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo; Marcel GM Olde Rikkert; Richard Horton; Robert Mash; Carlos Monteiro; Elena N. Naumova; Eric J. Rubin; Peush Sahni; James Tumwine; Paul Yonga; Chris Zielinski; Arun Mitra; Tilman Ruff; Andy Haines; Ira Helfand

Kamran Abbasi Editor-in-Chief, British Medical Journal, London, United Kingdom
Parveen Ali Professor of Nursing & Gender Based Violence; Health Sciences School, University of Sheffield, & Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals; Lead, Sheffield University Interpersonal Violence Research Group, Sheffield, UK
Virginia Barbour Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia, Brisbane, Australia
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Marcel GM Olde Rikkert Dutch Journal of Medicine, and Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Richard Horton Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet, London, United Kingdom
Robert Mash Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University / Editor-in-chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Carlos Monteiro Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Elena N. Naumova Professor and Chair, Tufts University, Boston, USA
Eric J. Rubin Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, USA
Peush Sahni Professor and Head, MBBS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences [AIIMS], New Delhi), India
James Tumwine Professor; Dean School of Medicine at Kabale University, Kampala, Uganda
Paul Yonga CA Medlynks Medical Centre and Laboratory; East African Medical Journal, Nairobi, Kenya
Chris Zielinski Visiting Fellow, University of Winchester and Vice-President, World Association of Medical Editors, Winchester, United Kingdom
Arun Mitra President Indian Doctors for Peace and Development, Ludhiana, India
Tilman Ruff International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, University of Melbourne, Australia
Andy Haines Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Ira Helfand International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Springfield, USA

Keywords: NUCLEAR WAR

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