Mental Health and Substance Use
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 7, 2025 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Overview When COVID-19 struck, health professional educators around the globe were in the unsettling position of having to maintain educational continuity in a highly disrupted learning environment. Learning from and with colleagues and peers became the cornerstone of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 9, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
After disaster exposure, children are at risk for developing physical health problems, mental health symptoms, and difficulties in school. The hallmark mental health symptom observed among children after a disaster is post-traumatic stress (e.g., flashbacks,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 9, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Family reunification, the process of bringing members of a family, specifically children, back together after an event, is an essential component of disaster preparedness and management. Natural and mass casualty (no-notice) disasters can strike at any...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 14, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | In the aftermath of disasters, prompt and safe family reunification is crucial, especially for pre-verbal children separated from their families. Settings may remain unsafe in the aftermath of disasters, and without the application of technology,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 14, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Today’s children are expected to experience two to seven times more disaster events than their grandparents (Thiery et al., 2021). Climate-related disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and wildfires are key drivers of the outsized impacts disasters will have on...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
The 2010 report of the National Commission on Children and Disasters recommended that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should “enhance the research agenda for children’s disaster mental and behavioral health, including psychological first...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
This discussion paper provides an overview of the tenth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health Case Challenge (see https://nam.edu/initiatives/dc-public-health-case-challenge/ [accessed March 20, 2024]), a student competition held in 2023 by the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 26, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | As the United States grapples with the persistent challenges of chronic pain and substance use disorder (SUD), the rise in telehealth has opened new horizons for health care delivery. This paper delineates a comprehensive action agenda for the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 6, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Rapidly rising drug overdose rates in the United States during the past three decades underscore the critical need to prevent overdose deaths and reduce the development of opioid and related substance use disorders (SUDs). Traditional public...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 6, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Background In 2018, the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM’s) Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic was established to catalyze public, private, and nonprofit stakeholders to develop, curate, and implement multi-sector solutions designed...
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