Speaker Series to feature doctor who exposed Flint water crisis Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha will discuss her work as a clinician and community advocate when the Speaker Series resumes on April 13. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician who exposed the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, will discuss her work as a clinician and community advocate when the Speaker Series at Penn State Behrend resumes on April 13. The program, which is open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. on Zoom. A link and additional details are available at behrend.psu.edu/speakerseries. Dr. Hanna-Attisha is the founder and director of the Pediatric Public Health Initiative at Michigan State University and Hurley Medical Center Children’s Hospital. In 2014, when the city of Flint, hoping to save money, began to draw its drinking water from the Flint River, she learned the move had introduced high levels of lead into the community’s water supply.