At the start of this new year, four Nursing students- Makenzie Lannon, Brittany Wyatt, Elena Moran, and Jessica Mengistab -participated in a retreat of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) as part of ANHE's Young Nursing Leaders initiative. AHNE has been working with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on environmental issues that affect human health.
As part of AHNE's work relating to environmental health advocacy, the students joined environmental health nursing leaders from across the country to attend a meeting at the EPA in Washington, D.C. All four students were enrolled in Associate Professor Dr. Ruth McDermott-Levy’s Imperatives of Global and Public Health course, and were eager to take advantage of the opportunity. During their visit to the nation’s capital, the students met with staffers from the offices of Senator Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Senator Corey Booker (NJ), and spoke with Janet McCabe, the Acting Deputy Director for the Office of Air and Radiation.