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A research team of young people created by the CUNY SPS youth studies program has been featured on the PBS show MetroFocus. In the segment, members of the NYC Youth Agenda Steering Committee talk about their newly unveiled "2023 NYC Youth Agenda," a set of recommendations that they have presented to leaders at City Hall.

Dr. Jennifer McIntosh, an adjunct assistant professor of nursing at CUNY SPS, has published the article "The Impact of Systemic Racism on Health Outcomes Among Black Women: Recommendations for Change" in the journal The Nurse Practitioner.

Staff members of the CUNY SPS Office of Faculty Development and Instructional Technology (OFDIT) Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative team, will be presenting at the North East OER Summit on April 4-5. Their talk describes the creation of a CUNY Pressbooks version of Concepts in Statistics. Sarah Kresh will also be presenting the keynote address at the summit.

Dr. Jennifer McIntosh, adjunct assistant professor of Nursing at CUNY SPS, was one of the faculty leads at Yale University School of Nursing for a student-focused global health program which included the 26th East Asian Forum of Nursing Scholars (EAFONS) 2023 and the Global Nursing Research Center Spring International Program at the University of Tokyo, Japan. This experience provided students with opportunities for international collaboration and learning while to sharing innovative approaches and methodologies in nursing science.

In February 2023, students from the CUNY SPS MA in Youth Studies program participated in an annual breakfast designed to help shape New York City’s youth policy agenda. Two students who attended, Rachel Castillo and LaTroya Lovell, shared their thoughts on the event and the impact it may have on the work being done by youth workers and advocates going forward.