Gaurab Basu
Director of Education and Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Gaurab Basu is the director of education and policy at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. A primary care physician, Basu advises the Massachusetts Governor’s Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. He previously worked for global NGOs, including Gates Institute, Partners in Health and Child in Need Institute. Basu’s work has been featured by NPR, The Boston Globe and Scientific American, among others. He received the inaugural HMS Equity, Social Justice, and Advocacy Faculty Award and HMS Charles McCabe Faculty Prize in Excellence. In 2021, Basu was named to the Grist 50 list of national climate leaders.
Previously
The climate crisis is a health crisis. But even as climate change contributes to the global burden of disease, killing roughly 4 million people globally since the turn of the...