Is clean air becoming a new global currency?

A clean air crisis is exacerbating existing global inequality as people in deprived areas are forced to breath dirty air. Image: unsplash / @veeterzy
David Duong
Director, Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change, Harvard Medical School
Neha Rana
Undergraduate Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Riya Master
Undergraduate Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School

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