VIDEO: Climate Change and Your Child's Health
On October 12, we welcomed Drs. Lori and Robert Byron from Montana Health Professionals for Healthy Climate to speak to parents and caregivers about the potential impacts of climate change on our children in Montana, and learn tools and actions that could help keep our kids safer in a rapidly changing world.
Big thanks to Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate and Moms Clean Air Force Montana for co-sponsoring this event.
Watch the recording
Resources for taking action and protecting your family
Quick and urgent action: Tell Senator Tester to support the Build Back Better Plan -- climate provisions are threatened and our voices are needed
Learn more about MTHPHC’s efforts to bring the EPS’s Air Quality Flag Program to Montana organizations and schools. They will provide all that you need to get set up for free!
Check out our Guide to Getting Involved (based on time available) and Climate Action for Kids posts.
Check out 5 steps to prepare for wildfire and smoke season, including great videos on purchasing a HEPA filter, or making your own in-home HEPA filter with a fan. Big thanks to Climate Smart Missoula for creating this important resource!
And, watch the video. There is a thorough discussion of actions at the end of the presentation.
Thank you for engaging on this important issue!
SPEAKERS
Lori Byron, MD, FAAP
Chair, Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate
Dr. Lori G. Byron practiced pediatrics for 27 years on the Crow Indian Reservation. Currently retired from Indian Health Service, she now works as a Pediatric Hospitalist in a private hospital and works on environmental issues with several organizations, including co-chairing the Citizens’ Climate Lobby Health Team and being a member of both the Children’s Health Advisory Committee to the EPA and the Executive Committee of the Environmental Health Council at the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is currently a Masters’ Candidate from Johns Hopkins in Energy Policy and Climate.
Robert Byron, MD, MPH, FACP
Vice Chair, Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate
Dr. Robert Byron, an internist, has practiced for more than two decades on the Crow Indian Reservation. He is a founding member of the Bighorn Valley Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Eastern Montana, and a former governor for the Montana Chapter of the American College of Physicians. Rob co-chairs the Citizens’ Climate Lobby Health Team and is a member of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. He advocates for addressing climate change with emphasis on public health and environmental justice.