A Public Health Student’s Response— Providing Support to New York City Schools
1 min readDec 5, 2020
Final year Columbia University Master’s of Public Health student shares about her experience responding to the needs of New York City’s school districts at the brink of the pandemic.
Ellie Goldstein completed an externship in conjunction with Children’s Aid and a large middle school located in the Bronx. Following a comprehensive needs assessment, a survey was created and then disseminated with the purpose of identifying the various physical, mental and sexual health needs of students.
Can you describe what you did for this externships for the New York City School District to assist in their COVID-19 response?
What were the lessons learned or any takeaways you have from developing the survey?
What do you think were the most important aspects to include in the survey and why?
For public health students and professionals who are not early educators, in what ways can we be supportive to those who are?
