City GOVERNMENTS ought to be abolished, if only as a PUBLIC HEALTH measure.

I am very CONCERNED that federal and state AIR quality programs do not consider PUBLIC HEALTH in regulating certain CLASSES of industrial air emissions.

Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public HEALTH in the developing world. She brings BASIC medical SERVICES to women and children in East AFRICA.

By CREATING a generation of VULNERABLE people, especially children, with a POOR, irregular diet, we are storing up a PUBLIC health time bomb.

Many PEOPLE still BELIEVE that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, SOCIAL services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

I've been a medical and PUBLIC HEALTH professional as well as a MOTHER. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. LIKE many other female leaders, I've tried to SERVE as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the HEALTH of children and pregnant WOMEN, until this Administration puts PUBLIC health before politics.