Shared Stories
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David H. Climate change is a public health emergency. Climate change is a public health emergency, and poses a dire threat to lung health.
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Glenn R. S. Right now, the air we breathe is in crisis. Health care professionals have a responsibility to help diagnose and treat patients, and to help the community at large when there is a crisis.
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Jessie W. We must unite together to protect our patients. As I walk among the towering trees, listening quietly, breathing deep the moist air, I am reminded of the interconnected web of life.
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Juanita M. We must support action on climate change to protect Latino community.
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Mallory H. Let’s all work to promote clean air. It is my role as an educator and respiratory practitioner to teach students and patients about the importance of monitoring the air quality reports.
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Peggy P. We need policymakers as partners to achieve healthy air. It’s hard telling my patients they shouldn’t exercise outside on bad air quality days.
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Robert J. B. Access to clean air is critical. As a pulmonologist I am motivated by helping to alleviate my patients’ suffering from asthma, COPD, lung cancer, pneumonia, and other lung diseases that can be caused by and exacerbated by dirty air.
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Anita H.
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Angela and Cameron D.
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Angela A.
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Ana T.
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Amy S.
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Amy S. For 30 years as a teacher, I watched more and more of my students begin to require the use of inhalers until my retirement in 2011.
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Amy P.
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Amy K.
