b'ForewordEnvisioning a healthier and safer futureThis year, our annualAs emphasized by Philadelphia 2035, forpublication, Leadinggrowth to promote health, we need to ensure Healthy Change inaccess not just to good health care, but also to Our Communities,healthy foods, recreation facilities, and safe looks ahead to theoutdoor spaces that promote exercise. Protecting year 2035. As theyour drinking water and improving transportation, conducted in-deptheducation, jobs, and the quality of our air can interviews with 10have tremendous effects on health acrosshealth leaders in theour region.Philadelphia region,We must also face the threats to health that Healthy NewsWorksaccompany climate change, including the health student reportersconsequences of more severe heat waves, asked the leadersdisruptive storms, and longer mosquito seasons. how they were helping to make Philadelphia a healthier and safer city in 2035.In looking ahead to 2035, we are encouraging Why 2035? First, it is distant enough to piqueHealthy NewsWorks reporters and their readers our reporters curiosity and to encourage them to think about the city and world they will inherit to imagine their lives as young adults. Second, and to imagine the ways in which they canit aligns with Philadelphia 2035the citys planbuild a healthier future for themselves andfor encouraging sustainable, equitable, andtheir communities.healthy growth. In this spirit, we urged our stu- By James W. Buehler, M.D. dents to think beyond the essential role of healthDr. Buehler is a professor of healthcare and to consider the mix of social, cultural,management and policy at the Dornsife economic, and environmental forces that shapeSchool of Public Health at Drexel Universitythe health of people and communities.and a Healthy NewsWorks boardmember. He is a former Philadelphiahealth commissioner.1'