Health Professionals for Clean Air Stories
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Sharon Chinthrajah, M.D., All communities deserve a healthy climate. Air pollution has detrimental effects on fetal development, sends people to the hospital for respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, and worsens asthma and COPD.
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Sonal R. Patel, M.D., I owe it to my children to fight for climate health. With asthma, you wheeze, your chest tightens, you cough and are short of breath.
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Sumita B. Khatri, M.D., M.S., Climate change affects everyone. There are many reasons why I work to fight and increase awareness around climate change. The most important reason is simple: Humanity.
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Sunil K. Saini, M.D., Clean air is the right of every individual. As a specialist in treating childhood asthma, I see first-hand the effects that pollution has on the health of our most vulnerable population - children.
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Therese Smith, RN, BSN, MS, MPA, CCM, Clean air is essential to all of us. I fight for clean air and climate action because I lost my mom to lung cancer in 1986.
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Tze-Ming (Benson) Chen, M.D., Clean air equals healthy air. Climate health is of critical importance to our own personal well-being and that of our children and future generations.
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Ying Li, MD, Climate change harms health.
