What health threats will Montana's children face from climate change, and how can we keep them safe?
Our children will likely face increased, and potentially overlapping, health issues from global warming over the next few decades, including impacts from wildfire smoke, heat, increased stress, and more.
Join Families for a Livable Climate, Montana Health Professionals for Healthy Climate, and Moms Clean Air Force - Montana, for this special event with Dr. Lori Byron and Dr. Robert Byron. Through their presentation participants will become more informed about the potential impacts of the climate crisis on Montana’s children, and have the opportunity to engage in an in-depth Q&A with two doctors who have been at the forefront of human health and climate change in Montana.
Learn tools and actions that could help keep our kids safer in a rapidly changing world!
Registration Required. Please register to receive the Zoom link. Free and open to the public.
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.
