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Dr. Brita Lundberg on Gas Leaf Blowers

November 10, 2025 Comments Off on Dr. Brita Lundberg on Gas Leaf Blowers

GBPSR’s Brita Lundberg, MD, explains the health risks of gas leaf blowers.

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An urgent call to bring an affordable, climate-friendly inhaler to the US

September 21, 2024 Comments Off on An urgent call to bring an affordable, climate-friendly inhaler to the US

by Dr. Wynne Armand, GBPSR board member

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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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