September is Suicide Prevention Month. In observance of this, as well as National Suicide Prevention Week (September 5–11) and World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), EDC offers the following actions, resources, and events to promote suicide prevention worldwide.
School-based health education programs play an essential role in preventing the spread of HIV and AIDS—and they should be expanded, says EDC’s Ronnie Lovich. Lovich recently met with health practitioners and public health experts from around the world at the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa.
From 2010 to 2016, EDC’s Youth Employability Skills (YES) Network improved educational and workforce opportunities for over 11,000 youth in Macedonia. Notably, this tally included 450 youth with disabilities—a population that has historically been marginalized in the country’s schools and industry.
First Lady Michelle Obama visited Liberia, where she held a roundtable discussion with girls and young women, some of whom are enrolled in the USAID Advancing Youth Program, which is managed by EDC.
Despite the fact that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, suicide prevention programs in formal health care settings remain relatively rare.
Zika, HIV/AIDS, Ebola—when infectious diseases approach epidemic status, panic also spreads. And while Jackie Miller understands people’s heightened concerns about global contagion, she says that the panic ultimately does more harm than good.
EDC is saddened by the death of Jerome Bruner, co-founder of EDC and a long-time faculty member at the New York University School of Education, who died June 5 at the age of 100.
EDC international development specialist Gustavo Payan has been selected for the Edward S. Mason Program, the flagship international program of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
