“My Flint kids are no different than my children. And that's what grounds me to this day. Every single day it is the kids that ground me.'
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha is one of USA TODAY's Women of the Century. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we've assembled a list of 100 women who've made a substantial impact on our country or our lives over the past 100 years. Read about them all on Aug. 14.
She said she felt great for about a half an hour after going public."I'm like, 'Yes, this is awesome. I'm protecting kids. Things are going to change.'"Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician who lives in Michigan. When her patients' blood showed high levels of lead, she knew she had to let... She said officials had been dismissing the concerned people of Flint – parents, religious leaders, journalists, activists – for months."I never should have had to do that research. Obviously the water crisis never should have started. It should have stopped when that first mom held a jug of brown water."
"So it took awhile," said Hanna-Attisha, now an associate professor of pediatrics and human development at Michigan State University, "but finally with teamwork and persistence and more science, we did speak truth to power."In 2015, Pediatrician Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, 43, proved to the world that the water in Flint, Michigan was tainted with lead.Just a few weeks after , we switched back to Great Lakes water. So that was in October of 2015.
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