Tag Archives: School

Disruptive School Closings Raise Questions of Equity

Scott Brown, police officer, Streetsboro, OH. William Schaffner, MD, professor of infectious diseases, Vanderbilt University. Valerie Lehmann, junior, University of Maryland, College Park. Daniel A. Domenech, PhD, executive director, the School Superintendents Association. Caitlin Rivers, PhD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Streetsboro City Schools: “School Is Closed for All Students Effective 3/13/2020-4/3/2020… Read More »

Poor mental health ‘both cause and effect’ of school exclusion

Children with mental health needs require urgent support from primary school onwards to avoid exclusion, which can be both cause and effect of poor mental health, new research concludes. The research, led by the University of Exeter, and published in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, concluded that a swift response is needed, finding that young… Read More »

Harvard Chan School, Apple, and NIH launch women’s health study

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Apple, and the National Institutes of Health today launched the Apple Women’s Health Study. The large-scale longitudinal study, led by a team of researchers at Harvard Chan School, leverages participants’ voluntary use of a smartphone research app to advance understanding of menstrual and gynecological health. By making use… Read More »