Irwin Redlener has dedicated his life to helping vulnerable at-risk children survive and thrive. Whether as a highly accomplished pediatrician caring for children with life-threatening illnesses, founder of the Children’s Health Fund, creator of a state-of-the-art New York City Children’s Hospital, discussing current public health issues and policies, or advocating on behalf of the growing numbers of children in crisis, his creative strategies have made him a sought after thought leader and speaker for media, educational organizations and political forums. He is one of America’s leading child advocates.

Irwin also devotes his energies to educating the nation about the need to be prepared for the increasing number of natural and man-made disasters that threaten our cities and citizens and promoting the best methods to affect a full and speedy recovery post-disaster, particularly for children.

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The Future of Us

“Children are essentially dreamers … undaunted by adversity or reality-based barriers to success.”

Raymond is a talented young artist who carries his work from homeless shelter to homeless shelter in a tattered bag but has never even been inside a museum. Inadequate education, barriers to health care and crushing poverty make it overwhelmingly difficult for many children to realize their dreams. Finding ways to alter these trajectories is serious, grown-up business, and it’s time for us to act.

Children are essentially dreamers … undaunted by adversity or reality-based barriers to success. In Dr. Irwin Redlener’s latest book release, read how Raymond – a talented but homeless youth in America today – is affected by poverty and homelessness and what that means for both his – and America’s -- future in a post-pandemic world.

In The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First Century America, we examine our nation’s safety nets and special programs that are designed to protect and nurture our most vulnerable kids, but that too often fail to do so. This represents a great peril to our nation’s future. With a new preface and afterword, he addresses how social and economic adversities and the coronavirus pandemic will impact children like Raymond denying them the future they deserve, and the nation’s future depends on. It is also a book that covers his own unique personal and professional journey from the dangers of the racist South, to running a children’s ICU, to working with Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and many others helping people in sub-Saharan Africa, to working with Paul Simon to develop the nation’s largest mobile health care program for children living under very difficult urban and rural conditions.

Americans At Risk

This important book offers a compelling narrative about our nation’s inability to properly plan for large-scale disasters and proposes changes that can still be made to assure the safety of its citizens.

Years after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and a growing number of disasters, it is painfully clear that the government’s emergency response capacity is plagued by incompetence and a paralyzing bureaucracy. Redlener brings his years of experience with disasters and health care crises, national and international, to an incisive analysis of why our health care system, our infrastructure, and our overall approach to disaster readiness have left the nation vulnerable, virtually unable to respond effectively to catastrophic events. He has had frank, and sometimes shocking, conversations about the failure of systems during and after disasters with a broad spectrum of people—from hospital workers and FEMA officials to Washington policy makers and military leaders. He concludes with a real prescription: a nine-point proposal for how America can be better prepared as well as an addendum of what citizens themselves can do.