Dr. Gaurab Basu
@gaurabbasu.bsky.social
Physician, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Advocating for climate solutions for a just, healthy future for everyone.
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Advocating for climate solutions for a just, healthy future for everyone.
I had a real pleasure to moderate this panel with Gina McCarthy and Bob Inglis. Two people, with very different backgrounds, who enjoy a true friendship and desire to protect our planet. I think there's a lot to learn here. Check it out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGaR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGaR...
Climate change: Seeking bipartisan solutions during turbulent times
YouTube video by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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October 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I had a real pleasure to moderate this panel with Gina McCarthy and Bob Inglis. Two people, with very different backgrounds, who enjoy a true friendship and desire to protect our planet. I think there's a lot to learn here. Check it out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGaR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGaR...
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The 2025 Harvard #Climate Action Week is underway and FXB Faculty Affiliate @gaurabbasu.bsky.social and his team have been working towards organizing and empowering health professionals to advance solutions. Read more on @aamc.org ➡️ tinyurl.com/58ch48s5
This week's events ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh9bsdzu
This week's events ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh9bsdzu
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The 2025 Harvard #Climate Action Week is underway and FXB Faculty Affiliate @gaurabbasu.bsky.social and his team have been working towards organizing and empowering health professionals to advance solutions. Read more on @aamc.org ➡️ tinyurl.com/58ch48s5
This week's events ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh9bsdzu
This week's events ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh9bsdzu
Make COP 30's big announcement - solar for everyone
I hope people read and react to this idea: what if climate policy focused on flooding the planet with cheap, or free, solar panels? Globalize China and India's panel factories, buying panels by the boatload and just offloading them at every wharf on earth
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A Modest Proposal
What if we just flooded the planet with cheap or even free solar panels?
billmckibben.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Make COP 30's big announcement - solar for everyone
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How can one climate event impact families’ health, economic security, and well-being?
Health professionals see the effects firsthand. Their stories show us the reality of how these disasters destroy lives and livelihoods. Explore them in our new report. bit.ly/OneClimateEv...
Health professionals see the effects firsthand. Their stories show us the reality of how these disasters destroy lives and livelihoods. Explore them in our new report. bit.ly/OneClimateEv...
August 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
How can one climate event impact families’ health, economic security, and well-being?
Health professionals see the effects firsthand. Their stories show us the reality of how these disasters destroy lives and livelihoods. Explore them in our new report. bit.ly/OneClimateEv...
Health professionals see the effects firsthand. Their stories show us the reality of how these disasters destroy lives and livelihoods. Explore them in our new report. bit.ly/OneClimateEv...
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UK's End of Coal:
"Each these 375ft tall, 290ft diameter cooling towers used to process a staggering 7.5 million gallons of water per hour.
Safely bringing them down meant using around half a tonne of explosives across ~16,500 holes, connected with 19km of detonating cord."
"Each these 375ft tall, 290ft diameter cooling towers used to process a staggering 7.5 million gallons of water per hour.
Safely bringing them down meant using around half a tonne of explosives across ~16,500 holes, connected with 19km of detonating cord."
August 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
UK's End of Coal:
"Each these 375ft tall, 290ft diameter cooling towers used to process a staggering 7.5 million gallons of water per hour.
Safely bringing them down meant using around half a tonne of explosives across ~16,500 holes, connected with 19km of detonating cord."
"Each these 375ft tall, 290ft diameter cooling towers used to process a staggering 7.5 million gallons of water per hour.
Safely bringing them down meant using around half a tonne of explosives across ~16,500 holes, connected with 19km of detonating cord."
We are very excited to launch a new fellowship teaching community organizing and advocacy to global climate and health scholars. And it'll be in beautiful Nafplio Greece! Please share with anyone who might be interested. fxb.harvard.edu/global-coach/
Global Community Organizing and Advocacy for Climate and Health (Global COACH) Scholars
An FXB Center for Health and Human Rights Course
Co-sponsored by the Global Climate and Health Alliance, Stanley Center for Peace and Security, Health Care Without Harm, CHA Cente...
fxb.harvard.edu
July 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We are very excited to launch a new fellowship teaching community organizing and advocacy to global climate and health scholars. And it'll be in beautiful Nafplio Greece! Please share with anyone who might be interested. fxb.harvard.edu/global-coach/
A few of my favorite things
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Outdoor museum, rooting for away team, and alt-rock anthem — Harvard Gazette
Gaurab Basu, a Harvard Chan School professor, recommends three ways to get your blood pumping.
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July 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A few of my favorite things
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Truly appreciated this read. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | My health and my politics walk into a doctor’s office …
My palliative care doctor and I have almost nothing in common. We’re still learning from each other.
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July 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Truly appreciated this read. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Here comes the sun…
Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
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It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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July 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Here comes the sun…
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Good morning with good news: US solar surges 26.3% in May 2025 to 39.9 TWh, up from 30.6 TWh in May 2024. Solar nearly tripled from 13.9 TWh in May 2020.
Solar May Share of Total Electricity:
May 2025: 11.2%
May 2024: 8.65%
May 2023: 7.31%
May 2022: 6.14%
May 2020: 4.51%
May 2015: 1.21%
#energysky
Solar May Share of Total Electricity:
May 2025: 11.2%
May 2024: 8.65%
May 2023: 7.31%
May 2022: 6.14%
May 2020: 4.51%
May 2015: 1.21%
#energysky
July 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Good morning with good news: US solar surges 26.3% in May 2025 to 39.9 TWh, up from 30.6 TWh in May 2024. Solar nearly tripled from 13.9 TWh in May 2020.
Solar May Share of Total Electricity:
May 2025: 11.2%
May 2024: 8.65%
May 2023: 7.31%
May 2022: 6.14%
May 2020: 4.51%
May 2015: 1.21%
#energysky
Solar May Share of Total Electricity:
May 2025: 11.2%
May 2024: 8.65%
May 2023: 7.31%
May 2022: 6.14%
May 2020: 4.51%
May 2015: 1.21%
#energysky
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A couple entries for the baby book, just to mark the era.
July 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A couple entries for the baby book, just to mark the era.
Call these 2 critical votes to vote no on the federal bill
Lisa Murkowski - 202 224-6665
Susan Collins - 202 224-2523
Lisa Murkowski - 202 224-6665
Susan Collins - 202 224-2523
June 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Call these 2 critical votes to vote no on the federal bill
Lisa Murkowski - 202 224-6665
Susan Collins - 202 224-2523
Lisa Murkowski - 202 224-6665
Susan Collins - 202 224-2523
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Excited for the WBUR festival in Boston later this month! I’ll be speaking with Harvard Medical’s @gaurabbasu.bsky.social about health in the climate era. Tickets still available!
5/ Here's a list of all the Climate and Environment Events at the WBUR Festival
@moranwriter.bsky.social @katbagley.bsky.social @zteirstein.bsky.social
@moranwriter.bsky.social @katbagley.bsky.social @zteirstein.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Excited for the WBUR festival in Boston later this month! I’ll be speaking with Harvard Medical’s @gaurabbasu.bsky.social about health in the climate era. Tickets still available!
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Rhodium Group on the House budget bill: Will raise energy costs as much as 7% in 2035, stifle energy technology innovation, increase pollution, and put half a trillion dollars of new manufacturing, industrial, and clean electricity investments across the country at risk. rhg.com/research/way...
May 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Rhodium Group on the House budget bill: Will raise energy costs as much as 7% in 2035, stifle energy technology innovation, increase pollution, and put half a trillion dollars of new manufacturing, industrial, and clean electricity investments across the country at risk. rhg.com/research/way...
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Listen to @gaurabbasu.bsky.social on the Frontiers in Health & Happiness podcast from the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness!
Dr. Basu shared, “Climate change, ecological degradation, air pollution, it basically impacts all parts of our health."
Dr. Basu shared, “Climate change, ecological degradation, air pollution, it basically impacts all parts of our health."
Climate Change and Well-being with Dr. Gaurab Basu
In the first episode of our new "Environments for Health and Happiness" series, we sit down with Dr. Gaurab Basu, a leading expert in the intersection of cli...
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April 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Listen to @gaurabbasu.bsky.social on the Frontiers in Health & Happiness podcast from the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness!
Dr. Basu shared, “Climate change, ecological degradation, air pollution, it basically impacts all parts of our health."
Dr. Basu shared, “Climate change, ecological degradation, air pollution, it basically impacts all parts of our health."
Overall approval rating 39%. 61% disapprove environment policy.
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Trump approval sinks as Americans criticize his major policies, poll finds
President Donald Trump’s 100 days poll finds a lower approval rating, growing opposition to his agenda and opposition to many of his major initiatives.
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April 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Overall approval rating 39%. 61% disapprove environment policy.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Very honored to speak at the @wbur.org festival among some legendary folks. Buy ticks and join us! www.wburfestival.org/lineup
Lineup | The WBUR Festival
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April 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Very honored to speak at the @wbur.org festival among some legendary folks. Buy ticks and join us! www.wburfestival.org/lineup
Celebrating earth day at National Academy of Medicine. We continue to stand for climate and health.
April 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Celebrating earth day at National Academy of Medicine. We continue to stand for climate and health.
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American households could save an average of $2,240 a year on their energy bills if we keep 2 very important renewable energy tax credits: 25D (think solar and storage) and 25C (think heat pumps and insulation).
Why is this so important?
Why is this so important?
April 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
American households could save an average of $2,240 a year on their energy bills if we keep 2 very important renewable energy tax credits: 25D (think solar and storage) and 25C (think heat pumps and insulation).
Why is this so important?
Why is this so important?
Courage is contagious. From Harvard Yard to every inch of the country.
April 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Courage is contagious. From Harvard Yard to every inch of the country.
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"In California, solar generation could finally surpass gas this year."
Actually, the probability that solar surpasses gas in 2025 is high!
Gas fell from 50% of CA's electricity in January 2024 to 40% in January 2025, and solar rose from 20% to 28%.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
#energysky
Actually, the probability that solar surpasses gas in 2025 is high!
Gas fell from 50% of CA's electricity in January 2024 to 40% in January 2025, and solar rose from 20% to 28%.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
#energysky
April 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"In California, solar generation could finally surpass gas this year."
Actually, the probability that solar surpasses gas in 2025 is high!
Gas fell from 50% of CA's electricity in January 2024 to 40% in January 2025, and solar rose from 20% to 28%.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
#energysky
Actually, the probability that solar surpasses gas in 2025 is high!
Gas fell from 50% of CA's electricity in January 2024 to 40% in January 2025, and solar rose from 20% to 28%.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
#energysky
Hands off our planet. Hands off our health. Hands off our democracy. A packed Boston Commons. Spring is upon us.
April 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hands off our planet. Hands off our health. Hands off our democracy. A packed Boston Commons. Spring is upon us.
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“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...
Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree
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March 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...
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On the @thedailyshow.com tonight at 11 with @ronnychieng.bsky.social !
March 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
On the @thedailyshow.com tonight at 11 with @ronnychieng.bsky.social !