One Year Later: Supporting Children in the Time of COVID-19
A School-Based Approach to Health & Wellbeing
Speakers & Pre-Recorded Presentations
Food Insecurity
Andy Daly-Smith, PhD
Reader in Physical Activity and Healthy Childhood, University of Bradford, and Co-Director of the Wolfson Center for Applied Educational Research
Presentation: Physical activity and health in childhood: Moving beyond Elastoplast initiatives to whole school approaches
Jason Halford, PhD
Head of School, President of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO), School of Psychology, University of Leeds
Presentation: The triple burden and its impact on child development
Anisha Patel, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford
Presentation: Strengthening School Nutrition Programs to Address Food Insecurity for Latino Immigrant Populations
Mental Health
Manpreet K. Singh, MD, MS
Director, Stanford Pediatric Mood Disorders Program, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
Presentation: Understanding and Preventing Depression in Youth during and beyond the Pandemic
Mark Mon-Williams, PhD
Chair in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Leeds, Professor of Psychology at the Bradford Institute of Health Research, and Professor of Paediatric Vision at The Norwegian Centre for Vision
Presentation: Creating emotionally healthy schools
Contextual Reading:
- Child of the North (Report)
Digital Divide
Mai Elshehaly, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Bradford
Presentation: Digital Makers: Bradford's Digital Revolution
Amina Fazlullah, JD
Equity Policy Counsel, Common Sense Media
Presentation: Defining, Measuring and Understanding the K-12 Digital Divide to Build Rapid Response and Long Term Public Policy Solutions
Contextual Reading:
- Closing the K–12 Digital Divide in the Age of Distance Learning (Common Sense Media Report)
Michalis Kontopodis, PhD
Chair in Global Childhood and Youth Studies, University of Leeds
Presentation: Re-Imagining the "future from below" after COVID-19
Contextual Reading:
Equity in the Classroom
Thomas Dee, PhD
Barnett Family Professor, Professor of Education and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford
Presentation: The Revealed Preferences for School Reopenings: Evidence from Public-School Disenrollment
- Contextual Readings (all from August 2021):
- The Kindergarten Exodus (New York Times article)
- Stanford study reveals how public schools’ reopening decisions during the pandemic influenced a drop in enrollment (Stanford Report)
- The Revealed Preferences for School Reopening: Evidence from Public-School Disenrollment (Working Paper, PDF)
Amanda Waterman, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for Applied Education Research and University of Leeds
Presentation: Inequalities in the Classroom
Pediatrics and Physical Health
Adam Glaser, BSc (Hons), MBBS, DM
Children's Research Lead, Leeds Children's Hospital Research
Presentation: Leeds Children's Health Research
Mathew Mathai, MD
Consultant Pediatrician, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Presentation: Pediatricians for health and wellbeing