Pediatrician Parents on Raising Kids in a Changing Climate

Kids are our future and have the most to lose from the changing climate affecting our planet. However, they also have the most to gain from us taking action now to understand how climate change impacts the health of our children and what we can do. Today I am joined by two amazing pediatric lung doctors and mothers. 

Dr Anne Coates is the mother of four and a pediatric pulmonologist in the Maine Medical Partners Pediatric Specialty Care practice and teaches the next generation training in pediatric medicine at Maine Medical Center and is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine 

Dr. Christy Sadreameli has two boys and is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she co-directs the Childhood Interstitial and Diffuse Lung Disease and Immunologic Disorders Clinic.  

What can you do?

– You can learn more about how to keep your family healthy during things like wildfire events from  "Our Health in Wildfire Season" episode

– You can learn about how pollen is changing with climate change from the episode “Science over Politics.”

- Learn about heat events and how to stay safe from the “Heat Kills” episode with Professor Ollie Jay  

– Learn what you can do from the "Clean air and Climate Advocacy for Busy People" episode or the "”Bypass Toxic Politics” episode or “Your Little Grain of Sand” with Mom’s Clean Air Force

- Finally, consider a donation to the American Lung Association, who is working for clean air and a stable climate for all our kids.

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For more information go to airhealthourhealth.org.

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