Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on New York City Public School Children's Longitudinal Health and Education Outcomes, 2020-2022

This study examines how significant disruptions to children's health, education, and overall well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic created lasting influence on health, development, and social trajectories through the lifecourse, and the risk for long-term health outcomes. The research leverages the New York City (NYC) Student Population Health Registry (SPHR), a uniquely inclusive, longitudinal database of all NYC public school students created jointly by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and NYC Department of Education, along with other publicly available data sources.

Research to date has focused on racial and geographic disparities in school-level vaccination rates. Future research is expected to focus on outcomes such as increased incidence and exacerbation of chronic diseases like obesity, asthma, and diabetes; stress and anxiety; and educational consequences such as declines in academic achievement (test scores), increases in chronic absenteeism, repeating grades, or high school dropout. Also of interest are the mitigating effects of child-, classroom-, and school-level vaccination rates, and neighborhood and school characteristics such as income, vaccination sites, emergency food resources, and open space.

The ICPSR provides variable-level metadata for the data associated with this study. The actual data may only be available from the Principal Investigator directly. The variable descriptions available through ICPSR also include information regarding the source of each variable listed, as does the Data Source field of these metadata.