IICPH Newsletter  /  Spring/Summer 2003

Publications or Major Papers

• Reprint of Chapter I in Planet Earth: the Latest Weapon of War, in WOMEN ON WAR: An International Anthology of Writings from Antiquity to Present.
• Achieving Peace in Space, prepared for the International Pugwash meeting, Halifax, July, 2003.
• Avoidable Tragedy Post Chernobyl: an Analysis, Journal of Humanitarian Medicine, Vol. II, No. 3, pp 21-28.
• The Earth Charter and the United Nations, prepared for distribution in support of the Earth Charter, Fall 2002.
• Testimony for the Plaintiffs in a court case in Texas. Completed a written report and Deposition (in New York City), plus a new paper on The Low Dose Radiation Debate, requested by the lawyers for the plaintiffs.
• An Article for Anthology on Political Hope, requested by Paul Loeb.

Projects in Process

• Texas Court Case, as noted above.
• War is the Number One Health Hazard, requested paper for the Journal of Humanitarian Medicine.
• Enviromental Epidemiology: Handbook for Physicians, being prepared for the University in Bangladesh, but also of interest for Doctors for Global Health.
• Acting as an advisor to citizens of Fallon, Nevada, where there is a leukemia cluster and many unusual health problems. They are next to a military base.
• Consultant to Port Hope Health Group, in Ontario, that continues to struggle against the Canadian Government and Nuclear Safety Board to obtain a health study.
• Consultant to the Niagara Falls, New York, citizen committee for cleaning up the Manhattan Project radioactive and toxic waste.
• Consultant to the citizen committee in Tonawanda, New York, which has the same toxic radioactive and chemical waste problem.
• Consultant to the Sisters of St. Joseph Earth Justice Committee. This group is reading and discussing Rosalie’s book, Planet Earth. She spoke at a major on November 15, 2003.

Travel

• San Jose California: Beverly Reid, a Vancouver documentary TV producer hopes to do a focus TV on her work, with emphasis on depleted uranium.While in California, Rosalie met with a legislator who is also a former scientist from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, also outspoken about radiation and, in particular, DU.
• Reno, Nevada: Rosalie spoke to the local Peace and Justice organization. She did several TV interviews: Damsara Films, on the International Medical Commission - Bhopal; one for local peace groups; one for Association of Contemplative Sisters on the religious dimension of her life.
• Geneva, Switzerland: spoke at the People’s Health Assembly, mostly Third World Health workers and officials who wanted to prepare for the World Health Organization.