Mona Hanna-Attisha: The Will to Make a Difference — Transcript

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1. 0:00(slow somber music)
2. 0:01- I'm Mona Hanna-Attisha, the MSU pediatrician
3. 0:03who helped prove that children of Flint, Michigan
4. 0:05were being poisoned by unsafe levels of lead in the water.
5. 0:09The people of Flint knew
6. 0:10something was wrong with their water.
7. 0:13But when they voiced their concerns,
8. 0:14they were met with indifference and ignorance.
9. 0:18My team and I found ourselves
10. 0:20at the center of a public health crisis.
11. 0:22What we found was devastating.
12. 0:25And it was only after we released
13. 0:26the research findings that people were forced
14. 0:28to listen and things began to change.
15. 0:33(moves into light hopeful music)
16. 0:35Working together with members of the community
17. 0:37and government, we will create unprecedented change,
18. 0:40change that gets to the root of poverty
19. 0:42and the risk factors that come with it.
20. 0:45I want to be part of creating a new kind
21. 0:47of public health system, one that works in Flint
22. 0:50but also can be used as a nationwide model.
23. 0:53As part of Michigan State University
24. 0:54and Hurley Children's Hospital, we can do that.
25. 0:57We're determined to flip the story
26. 0:59and to help Flint's children fulfill their potential,
27. 1:02to make Flint a new model for public health programs,
28. 1:05to make Flint a word for hope.