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Anatomy of a Pandemic: Our children’s burden – Safety, education and isolation during COVID-19

  • 11 Jan 2021
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Webinar

Anatomy of a Pandemic: Our children’s burden – Safety, education and isolation during COVID-19

University of Calgary’s O’Brien Institute for Public Health

Children have suffered in recent months and bore the brunt of the policies that have been put in place to keep all Canadians — particularly the vulnerable — safe.

How have our pandemic decisions, approaches, and strategies affected the health, wellbeing, and safety of children across Canada, and what can be done now? 

This public forum, which will be free and open to all, will discuss, among other topics, online schooling, lowered physical activity levels amongst kids, isolation from friends and family, and the emotional strain and fear inherent with the pandemic.

The panel experts for this forum are:

  • Dr. Gina Dimitropoulos, PhD, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, and cross-appointed with the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Calgary
  • Dr. Kelly Dean Schwartz, PhD, Associate Professor in the School and Applied Child Psychology program at the University of Calgary
  • Dr. Patricia Doyle-Baker, Dr.PH/PhD, Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary
  • Dr. Suzanne Tough, MSc, PhD, Professor with the Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary and is a MaxBell Foundation/Burns Memorial Fund Policy Fellow.
  • Moderator: Sara Austin, Founder & CEO of Children First Canada



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