2015 - Whistleblower of Flint Water Crisis, which involved elevated levels of lead in the drinking water.

* Hanna was alerted in late 2015 to a lack of proper drinking water treatment in Flint, Michigan and an increased potential for lead in the city's water. * The water source had been changed from Lake Huron to the Flint River. * The lack of corrosion inhibitors in the new Flint water source was causing corrosion of water pipes and leaching of lead into drinking water. * She was at first decried by the spokesperson for the State of Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality as an "unfortunate researcher." * Later the State of Michigan acknowledged the lead-in-water crisis, and Department of Environmental Quality officials apologized to Hanna.

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Public Health

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