Gaurab Basu
Cognoscenti contributor
Dr. Gaurab Basu is a primary care physician, an instructor at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity Education & Advocacy at Cambridge Health Alliance.
Recently published
Boston's summer heat is an issue of racial equity. 'Greening' our city is one solution
We will need to do far more than plant trees and increase green space to fully address climate change and gun violence, write Gaurab Basu and Jonathan Jay. But nature-based...
What I Saw As A Boy In India Shaped My View Of Global Health
How will we respond to the global inequities of the pandemic? asks Garaub Basu. Our decision will shape billions of lives.
The Mass. Legislature's Climate Bills Are Important. But They Wouldn't Do Enough For My Most Vulnerable Patients
Climate change increases the number of nights my frail, elderly patients sweat through dangerous heat while they sleep, writes Gaurab Basu. It sends children to the hospital with respiratory disease....