This event is hosted and organized by the City Club of Cleveland. The Schubert Center for Child Studies is a community partner for this event.
A few years ago, the country watched in horror as the national media descended on Flint, Michigan. A switch in drinking water sources鈥攆rom Lake Huron and the Detroit River to the Flint River鈥攈ad caused nearly 100,000 residents to be exposed to dangerous amounts of lead. Those most affected were children whose lead blood levels doubled or, in some cases, tripled after the switch was made, resulting in developmental and behavioral problems.
That research, conducted by Dr. Mona Hanna-365bet体育在线世界杯tisha, a first generation Iraqi immigrant and Detroit-raised pediatrician, paved the way for government officials in Flint to acknowledge the extent of the water crisis, resulting in $100 million in federal and $250 million in state funding to clean the water and combat the effects. Personally, she remains as the director of the Pediatric Public Health Initiative and founder of the Flint Child Health and Development Fund.
For her efforts, Dr. Hanna-365bet体育在线世界杯tisha has received countless awards including being the for embodying the idea that 鈥渟cience and scholarship are as powerful tools for social change as art and protest.鈥�
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Hanna-365bet体育在线世界杯tisha, author of What the Eyes Don鈥檛 See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, on her fight against environmental injustice, how the residents of Flint have prevailed, and what we can do to prevent future public health crises.
"We need to be fighting for all children, no matter where they came from, what they look like, what their citizenship is." 鈥� Dr. Mona Hanna-365bet体育在线世界杯tisha
