9th 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. This year's event will honor Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico for his powerful leadership of the effort to abolish nuclear weapons as a moral, spiritual, and humanitarian imperative.

Archbishop Wester's archdiocese includes two of the three sprawling US nuclear weapons research facilities and the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. He is a leading advocate for the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which the Vatican was the first nation-state to sign and ratify

Our special event will be in-person this year at the Ikeda Center in Harvard Square from 5:00-8:00pm on Saturday, October 24th, 2026. 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 work is more urgent than ever. According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, it is now 85 seconds to midnight; the closest the Doomsday Clock has ever been to heralding human extinction. Your charitable donation is an investment in our local and global programs to educate the public and policy makers about the health and environmental dangers of nuclear weapons and climate change.

If you prefer to send a check, please mail your contribution to:

IPPNW
ATTN: 2026 Awards
339 Pleasant Street
Malden, MA  02148

All donations, no matter the size, are considered sponsorships and will be mentioned on our website and in our program book. Proceeds will be shared equally between GBPSR and IPPNW. Ticket sales and sponsorships for the event fuel our research, education and advocacy throughout the year. Thank you!

Questions? Contact Anna Linakis, GBPSR Executive Director at abaker@gbpsr.org or Michael Christ, IPPNW Executive Director at mchrist@ippnw.org. Or call (617)440-1733.