Objective: To assess and examine how the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted the mental health of a sample of health professions students (HPS) using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design. Participants: Participants included 41 HPS enrolled in a co-curricular interprofessional education (IPE) program. Measurements: Measures included the…

Education personnel play a crucial role in identifying and reporting child maltreatment. However, school closures amid COVID-19 pandemic disrupted this vital reporting system. I causally investigate how remote learning influenced trends in child maltreatment reports and risks, leveraging county-level variations in remote learning instructional…

During the early months of the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak, the distribution of morbidity and mortality starkly reflected preexisting social determinants of health. Socially vulnerable racial and ethnic populations endured not only the highest number of cases and death rates, but the earliest age mortality. In addition, early government responses to…