Robert K. Musil
Robert K. Musil, Ph.D, MPH, is Scholar in Residence and Adjunct Professor in the School of International Studies at American University where he teaches in the Nuclear Studies Institute and the Program on Global Environmental Politics. Dr. Musil was Executive Director and CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and its Director of Policy and Programs from 1992-2006. He is a graduate of Yale and Northwestern Universities and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and has been a Visiting Honorary Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and of Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Currently, he is a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow.
Dr. Musil specializes in contemporary global security, sustainability, and health issues, as well as Cold War history, culture, and policy. He is the author of numerous articles and the forthcoming Changing the Climate: Healing, Humanity, and Hope for a Heated Planet (Rutgers University Press). He has represented PSR as chief spokesperson in Washington and as its NGO representative at numerous international negotiations.
A long time leader of the peace, nuclear disarmament, and environmental movements, Dr. Musil has also been Executive Director of the Professionals' Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control, the SANE Education Fund, the Center for National Security Studies Military Affairs Project, and CCCO: An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling. He is a former Army Captain who taught communications and policy at the Defense Information School, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Dr. Musil initiated PSR's opposition to the war in Iraq in 2003 and has been central to campaigns for the CTBT, NPT, and other arms control measures.
Dr. Musil helped launch PSR's environmental program in the early 1990's and has led PSR campaigns for safe and affordable drinking water, clean air, and to prevent toxic pollution and global climate change. He also initiated PSR's U.S.-Mexico Border Project in El Paso and Juarez, Mexico.
From 1978-1992, Dr. Musil was the Executive Producer and host of "Consider the Alternatives" a half-hour weekly radio program syndicated to over 150 stations with 2,000,000 listeners. He has been the producer of numerous ground-breaking independent video documentaries and public radio documentary series including "Shadows of the Nuclear Age: American Culture and the Bomb"; "Mushrooms: Nuclear War and the Imagination" hosted by Colleen Dewhurst; and "War in Space: The Debate over Star Wars" hosted by Ed Asner. Dr. Musil is two-time winner of the Armstrong Award for Excellence in Radio Broadcasting.
