By Ron Fonger
Flint, MI -- A new book (click here) on the Flint water crisis by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha has landed on Oprah Winfrey's list of the top books to read this summer.
Oprah.com included "What the Eyes Don't See" on its best-book list, saying it "lays bare the bureaucratic bunk and flat-out injustice at the heart of the environmental disgrace -- revealing with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller ..."
Hanna-Attisha is the crusading Flint pediatrician whose research helped expose the consequences of high levels of lead in city water in 2015 -- a doubling of the percentage of infants and children with above average blood lead levels citywide....
April 21, 2018
By Geri Kelley, Ilene Carter and Sarina Gleason
TIME has named Mona Hanna-Attisha, (click here) director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, to the 2016 TIME 100 — its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The list, now in its 13th year, recognizes the activism, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals.
As TIME editor Nancy Gibbs has said of the list in the past, "The TIME 100 is a list of the world's most influential men and women, not its most powerful, though those are not mutually exclusive terms. While power is certain, influence is subtle. As much as this exercise chronicles the achievements of the past year, we also focus on figures whose influence is likely to grow, so we can look around the corner to see what is coming."
“Dr. Mona,” - as many call her, captured the 20th spot in the top 100 list, or 1.1 percent of the vote total, alongside U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, talk show hosts Stephen Colbert and John Oliver and German Chancellor Angela Merkel....
