Health Professionals for Clean Air Stories

Aparna Bole, M.D., Support clean air policies for our children’s health. As a pediatrician, I am dedicated to ensuring a healthy future for all children.

Anthony DeLucia, M.D., As a 30-year volunteer of the American Lung Association, including former chairman of the nationwide organization, I understand the threats of air pollution on lung health and the devastating impacts of lung disease on our families and communities.

Angela Wang, M.D., Climate change is real, it is now. As a mother and pulmonologist, I see the myriad ways through which climate change corrodes the health of not just my patients, but my family, friends, neighbors and community.

Alex Sherriffs, M.D., California's leadership is keeping my patients healthy. Strategies that lower greenhouse gas emissions also lower ozone precursors and the most deadly small particle pollutants.

Afif El-Hasan, M.D., Cutting emissions today means healthier children tomorrow. Like air pollution, climate change impacts vulnerable populations the most, including our children.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.