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Welcome to Greater Boston PSR:

We are a group of over 1,300 health professionals and community members in Massachusetts whose mission is to raise public awareness about the two existential threats to human health: nuclear war and climate change.

OUR GOALS:

  • To inform the public and policy makers of the human health impacts of climate change and nuclear weapons
  • To promote local, state and federal action on these issues
  • To build coalitions with like minded groups to amplify this message

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COVID: LEARN MORE ABOUT LINKS BETWEEN COVID AND CLIMATE CHANGE

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD

Dear Members and Supporters — in light of MLK, Jr. day

January 18, 2021 | Brita E. Lundberg, M.D., Chair of the Board

Updates & News

Campaign Update
Back From the Brink
Join health advocates all across the US by endorsing the Back from the Brink. Abolishing nuclear weapons has been a core goal of PSR since our founding in 1961.
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Campaign Update
COVID and Nuclear War
GB PSR Board member Kea van der Ziel and colleagues from MIT write about the US failure to adequately fund the COVID epidemic while spending billions this year on nuclear...
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Campaign Update
COVID and Climate Change
GB PSR member Dr. Phil Landrigan writes about health equity, COVID and climate change, in this issue of the Lancet, “COVID-19 and clean air: an opportunity for radical change.”
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Campaign Update
GB PSR Raises Awareness of the Association Between Indoor Air Pollution from Cooking with Gas and Asthma in Children
Authored by GB PSR’s Program Manager in Climate and Health Andee Krasner, the report calls for phasing out gas connections as part of a broader decarbonization strategy.
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Campaign Update
Informing Public Opinion
The health consequences of fossil fuel driven climate change are real. Drs. Philip Landrigan, Howard Frumkin and Brita Lundberg recommend simple interventions that can be taken now to save lives...
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News
Letter to our members: Remembering PSR founder Dr. Bernard Lown
Letter from GBPSR Chair of the Board Dr. Brita Lundberg on the life and work of PSR co-founder Dr. Bernard Lown, who died Feb. 16, 2021 at his home in...
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Nuclear News
UN treaty banning nuclear weapons goes into effect Jan 22, 2021
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: ICAN
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