Breathe This

Liesl is a parent, an educator, and an advocate for clean air in school. Before COVID, she focused on learning about how kids learn and making that information accessible for parents and teachers. She’s written several books about how kids learn math and how parents and teachers can help every kid learn math, including a free e-book: ALL Students Can Learn Math, and published books including Build...

Our guest for this Adam Van Bavel, who is a long COVID survivor and a fierce advocate for other survivors and for everyone who wants to avoid indoor airborne pathogens. He started the indoor-air-quality advocacy group, Maryland Indoor Air Quality Advocates, to promote the improvement of indoor air quality in schools. Learn more about Maryland Indoor Air Quality Advocates: https://miaqa.org/ .

Dr. Jonathan Howard is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health and the Chief of Neurology at Bellevue Hospital. He is the author of Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine as well as several textbooks in neurology. He writes on social media about COVID, vaccines, and the disinformation about public health that&#...

Our guest for this episode is Julie Lam, the founder of Mask Together America, a grassroots organization that began in 2020 with a simple but powerful idea: using storytelling, art, and community engagement to promote COVID prevention, support long COVID awareness, and advocate for health equity. She's also a community representative at NIH Recover, a research initiative for recovery from Long...

Welcome to Breathe This from Public Health Action Network. The hosts for Breathe This are PHAN's CEO Tarz Ludwigsen, and PHAN communications manager Theresa O'Connor. This podcast is about clean indoor air, airborne pathogens like COVID, how to avoid being infected by airborne pathogens, and how we can prevent transmission of them. COVID can lead to long COVID, which can damage your heart, lungs,...