Health Professionals for Clean Air Stories

Robert J. Blount, M.D., MAS, 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.

Peggy Pennoyer, M.D., FAAAI, 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.

Ashley E. McClure, MD, FACP, Clean air policies are healthy climate policies. As a primary care doctor, I have taken an oath to prevent sickness and to protect human health and safety.

Amanda Millstein, MD, FAAP, The climate crisis is a health crisis, specifically for our kids. The climate crisis is here and it is harming our health and the health of our children.

Juanita Mora, MD, We must support action on climate change to protect Latino community.

Bernadette Mae Longo, PhD, R.N., PHNA-BC, FAAN, We are all in this together. Human health is linked to the environment. As a nurse epidemiologist, I see the mounting evidence of the association between air pollution, accelerated climate change, and adverse health effects.

Jessie Weiler, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, OCN, 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.

Mallory Higginbotham, BA, RRT, RRT-ACCS, 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.

David Hill, MD, Climate change is a public health emergency. Climate change is a public health emergency, and poses a dire threat to lung health.

Glenn R. Singer, MD, FACP, FCCP, FAASM, 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.

Erika Maria Moseson, MD, MA, Climate change is (quite literally) sickening. As a lung and ICU doctor, my patients’ health is threatened by unhealthy air and climate change, and now COVID-19.

Randolph J. Lipchik, MD, MPH, We must not underestimate the need for clean air. As a physician, I see how the climate and air quality affects my patients with lung disease, every day.

Christine A. Hamilton, DHSc, RRT, I strongly urge a united front on climate change. Climate change poses serious threats to the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.

John S. Yordy, M.D., Ph.D., , Preserve and protect our clean air. We all depend upon the air we breathe for life.

Ying Li, MD, Climate change harms health.