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Dr. Briana Mezuk of Virginia Commonwealth University and Susannah Anderson of Tulane University with Linda Linstrom, the Executive Director of the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues (NAUDL). Dr. Mezuk and Ms. Anderson presented their research on the relationship between high school debate participation and psychosocial development and college attendance to the NAUDL Board of Directors in Washington DC this April.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Susannah Anderson, MPH<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

My research focuses on social determinants of health, and perhaps because I\u2019m a former biology teacher, I\u2019m specifically interested in education as a determinant of health.\u00a0 Disparities in education mirror disparities in health, and in the interests of cutting expenses, education policy may be widening these gaps rather than shrinking them.\u00a0 Though my research may not have always have a health-related outcome like viral load or blood pressure, I\u2019m convinced of its importance to public health.<\/p>\n

On April 18-19, I attended the annual meeting of the National Association of Urban Debate Leagues (NAUDL) in Washington, D.C. with Dr. Briana Mezuk, my advisor from my MPH.\u00a0 We attended the annual awards dinner and presented our recent research on students in Chicago Public Schools.\u00a0 Graduation rates and college attendance in many of the cities in the NAUDL lag behind the national average, and in my Master\u2019s thesis, Dr. Mezuk and I documented how participation in an urban debate league may improve a student\u2019s likelihood of graduating from high school.<\/p>\n

At NAUDL\u2019s annual dinner, I met and heard speeches by students, coaches, and NAUDL staff.\u00a0 The student speech was especially inspiring, in which Wynter Haley Scott discussed how her experiences with her debate team shaped her time in high school.\u00a0 After focusing on recoding data and looking for significant effects, I appreciated hearing about how these programs have contributed to positive outcomes for the students.<\/p>\n

I appreciated the opportunity to share my research with NAUDL staff, while listening to their feedback and hearing their ideas and questions about the analyses.\u00a0 Dr. Mezuk and I presented our recent research on college attendance and survey data from Chicago Public Schools to the NAUDL\u2019s board of directors and to the league directors.\u00a0 Because I was one of the few people at the meeting who had never been any kind of debater, getting to know the coaches, student debaters, and former debaters reminded me of the people behind the numbers I\u2019d been analyzing, and how that work can have a tangible effect on people and programs.<\/p>\n

Susannah Anderson is a doctoral student in the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences. Her research interests center around adolescent health and social determinants of health.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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