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Physicians and Scientists for Global Responsibility (PSGR) provides scientific and medical information and analysis in the service of the public’s right to be independently informed on issues concerning ecosystem (including human) health. PSGR places the public interest, and the obligation to protect future generations at the centre of all research and decision-making.

Our strategic direction is underpinned by legal principles and/or fields of law that support decision-making in the public interest so that future generations may be protected. There is a substantial volume of legal literature that underpins and support scientific decision-making in the public interest, these include the precautionary principle, administrative principles of law and the emerging field of earth jurisprudence. These principles support and reinforce complex decision-making to protect and sustain human and environmental health and the biological integrity of the land, water, food and technology that we depend on.

Our research and educational role brings to public attention the human health and ecosystem risk from the unanticipated effects of new technologies or polluting industries. These may adversely impact the genome (whether plant, animal, micro-organism or other); and have the potential to create adverse, unanticipated intergenerational consequences that cannot be reversed.

Our work includes research to advance education on optimising health and minimising health risk (and disease susceptibility) relating to environmental influences which may stem from pollution and inadequate nutrition.

Health risk is not limited to heritability, and twenty-first century science continues to unpack the role of environmental influences that impact genetic function. It is becoming evident that subtle (and not so subtle) epigenetic modifications to the genome (that does not damage the gene but negatively alters the way the gene functions) play a substantial part in genetic health, as epigenetic regulation influences all biological processes. These modifications may arise from pollution and toxicity; nutritional stress, a disrupted gut microbiome and mental stress.

PSGR makes every effort for the data considered in analysis to be unbiased and trustworthy, and in the public interest. This involves making special effort to pay particular attention to evidence-based research that is produced by independent scientists and researchers who are motivated to sustain ecosystem and human health.

The current accelerating erosion of ecosystem and human health is assisted by the capture of most science, and scientific information and regulatory services, by organisations which are committed to commercially oriented, rather than public interest results.

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