How Air Quality Affects Early Childhood Development and Health
Developmental Environments
In this webinar, we explore the impacts of air quality during pregnancy and early childhood, with a particular focus on indoor air, given that we typically spend more than 90% of our time inside. Panelists share actionable solutions to improve air quality, ranging from better policies and pollutant-free products to healthier ventilation and building materials, and offer resources for taking action in your community to ensure children and their caregivers have cleaner air to breathe.
Panelists
Lindsey C. Burghardt, MD, MPH, FAAP
Dr. Lindsey Burghardt is the Chief Science Officer at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, where she develops and leads the Center’s scientific agenda. She is the founding director of the Center’s Early Childhood Scientific Council on Equity and the Environment, a multidisciplinary group that synthesizes and translates scientific mechanisms related to the many ways that the built and natural environments impact children’s development and lifelong health.
Alison G. Lee, MD, MS
Alison G. Lee, MD, MS, is Associate Professor of Medicine with tenure and Associate Division Chief in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Lee also holds joint appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics and Global Health. Dr. Lee is the Chair of the American Thoracic Society’s (ATS) Environmental Health Policy Committee, where she advises the ATS Executive Committee and Board of Directors on issues of policy importance and priorities, and leads the committee in monitoring and responding to state, federal, and international environmental health policy legislation regulating, for example, air quality.
Joseph G. Allen
Dr. Joseph G. Allen is an associate professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, director of Harvard’s Healthy Buildings Program, and co-author of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well.
Dr. Allen serves on Harvard’s Presidential Committee on Sustainability, he keynoted the White House’s first-ever Indoor Air Quality Summit, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, served as Commissioner of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission and Chair of its Safe Work, Safe Schools, and Safe Travel Task Force.
