Mona Hanna-Attisha: What the Eyes Don't See

Pediatrician, author, and advocate, Mona Hanna-Attisha joined us to speak on her community's fight for clean water, health, and justice.

Mona Hanna-Attisha has an endowed professorship in public health at Michigan State University, and she is the founding director of the Pediatric Health Initiative. For her role in the Flint water crisis, she was named on of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and recognized by USA Today as one of its Women of the Century. An alumna of the University of Michigan, Dr. Hanna-Attisha received her M.D. from Michigan State University and served as chief resident at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. She is the author of What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City.

Event sponsors include: Halekulani Hotel, Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival, Scholars Strategy Network, The Queens’s Health System, and Ulupono Initiative

BTSS is a joint venture of UH Manoa, Hawai'i Community Foundation, and Kamehameha Schools.