This is particularly thrilling to learn about, as young people with hearts bent toward health sciences are often steered into the comparative sterility of the lockstep march of STEM toward a medical school education. Integrating health science education directly into schools gives our teens not only the irreplaceable opportunity to apprentice, but to "try on" the bioscience field and explore the many facets of delivering care that are outside strict allopathic medicine, and to recognize their value NOW, not only at some impossibly far away time in the future, if ever. This initiative will enable young ones to feel valuable and contributing, which is the greatest tonic against the lure of escapism of substances, and ameliorate the helplessness and hopelessness that runs with the teen years, with, I anticipate, a concomitant reduction of the incidence of depression. BRAVO!
President & CEO, Northwell Health | Healthcare Optimist | Author
Providing educational opportunities for our youth can directly improve the health of their families and community. As the first person in my family to attend college, I have seen this first hand. At Northwell Health, we will continue to reimagine what's possible and push the envelope as we search for ways to make a positive impact and #RaiseHealth for all. Visit the article below, originally in Becker's Healthcare, to learn more about our partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies and the NYC Department of Education to build a new high school in Queens devoted to #healthcare #education.
