Covid19 Back to School: Parents talking to Parents

This has been a whirlwind of a week. What started as a casual conversation about providing parents in Old Ottawa South with information to help them make a tough decision about going back to school, turned into a brilliant panel discussion with experts in the field of epidemiology, medicine, mental health and education - all of whom were Hopewell Ave. Public School Parents! 

Dr. Keegan Barker, Dr. Doug Manuel, Dr. Paul Peters, Daphne Dumbrille and myself were the organizers of the event. My beloved husband, Marc-André Roy was the moderator. 

Our panelists included: 

Dr. Doug Manuel, Public Health Physician & Researcher
Dr. Dayna Bell, CHEO Pediatric Emergency Physician & Assistant Professor , University of Ottawa
Dr. Catherine Horvath, Psychologist, Ottawa Centre for Resilience
Dr. Michelle Schira Hagerman, PhD, OCT, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education; University of Ottawa
Dr. Dara Spatz Friedman, PhD, MPH, Epidemiologist

​This video has now been viewed 27K times, shared 382 times, has been the topic of a CTV and CBC interview, and Ottawa Citizen article. It’s brilliant. It’s to the point. And it fills an epic void of information that is being put out there - despite the incredible world by Ottawa Public Health, CHEO, University of Ottawa’s