Today I'd like to share some thoughts about forgotten people. The concept was first introduced to me as a child with the faces on milk cartons and newspapers of missing children who had been missing for 20 plus years but still had advertisements out for them. It was so easy to think, "nope haven't seen 'em," flip the page, recycle, and forget.
It is estimated that less than half of American children achieve the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity per day. Hurley, a student enrolled in PH 615: Public Health in Action, will be traveling to Texas over spring break to help assess school physical activity policies in Brownsville, Texas.
Nine Michigan Public Health grad students will be flying down to the Rio Grande Valley during their spring break as members of the Public Health Action Support Team, or PHAST.