WTC Health Program Introduces Young Adult Outreach Videos

  • October 29, 2025

The World Trade Center Health Program has launched new outreach videos to help raise awareness of its benefits for 9/11 survivors who were 21 or younger on September 11, 2001. The videos feature Program members currently between the ages of 24 and 45 who discuss their health issues — from asthma and GERD to PTSD and cancer. As of September 2025, only 3,400 of the Program's 137,000+ members are young adult survivors, because many children and students who spent time near Ground Zero may now be suffering from chronic illnesses without realizing their connection to 9/11.

Watch the videos and learn more.

  • A man in a gray short-sleeve tee shirt, with short, dark, curly hair, looks into the distance with blurred trees behind him
  • A woman with chin-length dark hair, wearing a pink sleeveless top and black jeans, walks along the water with benches to her left
Photos Courtesy NIOSH/WTC Health Program

Bejan (left) and Nadia are among those young adults sharing their health stories in a series of new videos.

By 9/11 Memorial Staff

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