Event Category:

• Health-Seniors and Social Services Committee

HEALTH, SENIORS & SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE
AIR QUALITY AND ASTHMA FORUM
IN RESPONSE TO E 91ST STREET MARINE TRANSFER STATION

Speakers:

• Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright presents bill A. 7214 that authorizes a study on high incidence of asthma
• Valerie Rifkin, Environment Planning Consultant, discusses health and environmental impacts of  the MTS
• Thomas Newman, MD, Pulmonary Specialist at Metropolitan Hospital discusses asthma pathology- what is it, and how to combat the disease.
  • Click here for the presentation:> CB8M Asthma HSSS Presentation

 David Liston, Jacqueline Ludorf and Barbara Rudder,
Health, Seniors & Social Services Committee Co-Chairs