8th Annual Global Health and Peace Awards

Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) cordially invite you to join and support our presentation of this year's Global Health and Peace Awards, honoring Dr. Jennifer Leaning, who has dedicated her life to health and human rights. Dr. Leaning is currently a senior fellow at the Harvard FXB Center, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In addition to a career dedicated to addressing the health impacts of conflict and forced migration, Dr. Leaning also has a long history with the physicians’ movement for the prevention of nuclear war.  She became involved with PSR in the late 1970s, was Editor-in-Chief of IPPNW’s Medicine & Global Survival, and debunked the myth of civil defense following a nuclear war in The Counterfeit Arc.

Our special event will be in-person this year at the Ikeda Center in Harvard Square from 5:00-8:00pm on Saturday, December 6th, 2025.  We are thrilled to gather for some beautiful music, food and drink, and socializing with friends and colleagues who share our concern about the twin existential threats of nuclear war and climate change.

A quartet from the Longwood Symphony Orchestra will provide the evening's musical entertainment.

Our event planning is taking place with the world in turmoil. As the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists underscored when it moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 89 seconds to midnight this year, we are the closest ever to human extinction. At the same time, the scientific community has made it clear that global warming is rapidly approaching a climate tipping point that jeopardizes life on earth as we know it. And here we are facing these realities. We have one choice: to throw our hands up or strive for a livable future. Together, we can control what humanity has created. The human race has the power to slow climate change and dismantle nuclear weapons — in fact, we've done so before and we can do so again.

Your support is vital to our local and global programs to educate the public and policy makers about the health and environmental dangers of nuclear weapons and climate change. We would be thrilled to count you as a sponsor of this special event. Click on the sponsorship menu above for details. We welcome online donations or, if you prefer to send a check, you may mail your contribution to IPPNW (please note "2025 Annual Event" in the memo line) to:

IPPNW c/o Michael Christ
339 Pleasant Street, 3rd Floor
Malden, MA 02148

All proceeds will be shared equally between GBPSR and IPPNW.  Your support makes a world of difference to our organizations. Thank you!

Questions? Contact Michael Christ at (781)521-5183 or mchrist@ippnw.org