Webinar for Schools: The Role of Data and Science in Returning Students to School Safely
Our communities face a challenge today – there is an urgent need to continue with reopening schools and keeping them open. Children have been distant from physical learning for over a year now, and the consequences are profound. It’s clear that we need to invest resources to ensuring schools have access to the tools they need to bring back both students and teachers in a safe and healthy environment.
In this webinar, you will learn how data and science can help bring students back to school safely and avoid the challenges that come with the rapidly changing epidemiological conditions. Guidelines for school reopening are constantly being revised by CDC and other public health agencies. These guidelines include as data collection, monitoring, contact tracing, quarantines, diagnostic testing accessibility, as well as promoting and tracking vaccination of eligible students, staff, and educators.
We will highlight the myriad of methods, both manual and automated, that have been deployed to accomplish this with varying levels of success. You will learn how implementation of the guidelines can be done with high levels of collaboration, data, and automation by school administrators on local, county, and state levels all with the goal of facilitating students to return to safe and healthy learning environments.
Science plays a great role in keeping the students safe and helps achieve the emotional, psychological, and educational benefits of in-person learning in a healthy environment. We will also showcase how science-based, expertly vetted, up-to-date health and wellness content can be easily integrated in schools to provide healthy and safe environments for all students.
Speakers:
Robyn Hrivnatz
Director for the US Education Industry Advisor, Microsoft
Robyn Hrivnatz is an education professional with 21 years of experience serving in the education industry as an educator and student advocate. Joining Microsoft in 2014 after dedicating 14 years in public K-12 education in the state of Texas as a classroom teacher and instructional technology leader, she has devoted her time to growing educator fans, building a robust learning community for educators, and leading trainers and consultants to scale the Microsoft in Education mission through teacher training and social evangelism grounded in community focus. She currently works on the Microsoft Education team as the Director for the U.S. Education Industry Advisor team where she leads a team of professionals driving national programs and collaborating with school systems as they undergo digital transformation. Recognized as creative decision maker and diplomatic relationship builder, Robyn excels in her ability to lead by leveraging her passion for learning, an understanding for humanity, and her deep desire for education transformation. She resides in Houston, Texas embarking each day living her personal philosophy to ‘embrace the uncomfortable, be thankful, live passionately and be awesome.’
Sammy Wahab
CEO, Aztute Precision Public Health
Sammy Wahab is the CEO of Aztute, a public health platform built to keep communities safe and healthy. Sammy is a serial entrepreneur and has built several software companies. Aztute is his second company in the healthcare sector. Sammy is a thought leader who blends his management consulting and technology expertise to deliver breakthrough healthcare IT strategies, process automations and applications for some of the world’s leading organizations. Mission-driven leader with a life-long passion for improving healthcare outcomes, building powerful partnerships, and advising healthcare organizations. Sammy has earned MBA from the Ivey School of Business.
Andrea Bloom
Founder & CEO, ConnectWell (in partnership with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health)
Andrea is Founder and CEO of ConnectWell, a leading-edge provider of digital health and wellness content that is academically sourced and designed for a consumer audience. ConnectWell’s content is sourced from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, packaged for digital delivery with rich graphic content, and written for a wide-ranging consumer audience. Andrea has over 25 years of healthcare experience at large healthcare companies and in entrepreneurial ventures leading new product and program development across a wide variety of disease states to help people manage their health and well-being. Andrea received a BA in Economics from University of California, Berkeley and MBA from Harvard Business School.