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Sign Our Open Letter to AstraZeneca

June 7, 2024 Comments Off on Sign Our Open Letter to AstraZeneca

We, as health and sustainability professionals and organizations concerned about the impact of the accelerating climate crisis on public health, are writing to AstraZeneca with a plea to make their Symbicort Turbuhaler dry powder inhaler (DPI) available in the United States as soon as possible.

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How do trees and green spaces enhance our health?

April 19, 2024 Comments Off on How do trees and green spaces enhance our health?

Op-ed by Dr. Wynne Armand, GBPSR Board Member, in Harvard Health Publishing.

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Smoke from wildfires obscures a cityscape

Why is the US locking down for climate change?

September 27, 2023 Comments Off on Why is the US locking down for climate change?

Op-ed in the CommonWealth Beacon by GBPSR’s Dr. Brita Lundberg.

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The term ‘turf’ is misleading

August 13, 2023 Comments Off on The term ‘turf’ is misleading

Op-ed by GBPSR’s Philip Landrigan, MD; Sydney Engel; and Brita Lundberg, MD.

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Climate change is exacerbating racial inequities. Boston is trying to change that.

July 27, 2023 Comments Off on Climate change is exacerbating racial inequities. Boston is trying to change that.

Article featuring input from GBPSR board chair, Brita Lundberg, MD.

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Pollution inequality must stop; enforce roadmap law

January 23, 2023 Comments Off on Pollution inequality must stop; enforce roadmap law

Op-ed in CommonWealth Magazine by Brita Lundberg, MD, Chair of Greater Boston PSR, and Adrienne Allen, MD.

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Gas stoves are contributing to childhood asthma in Massachusetts, study finds

January 5, 2023 Comments Off on Gas stoves are contributing to childhood asthma in Massachusetts, study finds

Article in the Boston Globe quoting GBPSR Chair of the Board Dr. Brita Lundberg.

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Escalating Costs of Billion-Dollar Disasters in the US: Climate Change Necessitates Disaster Risk Reduction

January 4, 2023 Comments Off on Escalating Costs of Billion-Dollar Disasters in the US: Climate Change Necessitates Disaster Risk Reduction

Paper co-authored by Greater Boston PSR member Vijai Bhola in the Journal of Climate Change and Health.

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The False Promise of Fossil Fuel-Derived Hydrogen

December 29, 2022 Comments Off on The False Promise of Fossil Fuel-Derived Hydrogen

Co-authored by GBPSR members Dr. Brita E. Lundberg and Eden Diamond, Medical Student, in Vital Signs (Massachusetts Medical Society)

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Scientific journal investigating UMass hydrogen study after revelations of gas industry influence

December 13, 2022 Comments Off on Scientific journal investigating UMass hydrogen study after revelations of gas industry influence

Boston Globe article quoting GBPSR’s Dr. Regina LaRocque.

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