Children are growing up inside systems that adults actively reshape—or dismantle—in full public view. Those choices are loud, visible, and deeply consequential, even when they are buried in grant notices and “technical” changes to vaccine schedules. Every shift in research funding and immunization policy eventually lands in the most intimate places: a baby’s crib, a… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: What Happens to Children When Evidence Offends Power

This weekend’s attacks have pushed me past the edges of what words can easily hold. A Hanukkah celebration on the sand in Bondi, Australia, and a university classroom at Brown—two places that should be safe, joyful, ordinary—became scenes of horror, bound together by antisemitism and gunfire. As a school nurse, a public health advocate, a… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Trying to Name What Should Never Be, Again

Impeachment is one of the clearest places where the Constitution puts democracy’s hands directly on the levers of government. It is not anti‑democratic; it is how a self‑governing people says: no one is above the law, not even officials voters never got to choose. In the case of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Impeaching RFK Jr. is a Public Health Intervention.

Vaccines do not need Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s approval to save lives; they have been doing exactly that for generations in doctors’ offices, pharmacies, school clinics, and public health programs that quietly protect families while political noise grows louder. As sensational claims and online conspiracy theories reshape the national conversation about vaccines, the gap between… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: When Public Health Is Handed to Political Pawns…

The Relentless School Nurse blog is adding Substack, and you’re invited to come along so the stories, hard questions, and hard‑won hope from school health can travel even farther, deepen our conversations, and connect this community in new ways. This website will continue as the home base for our growing archive of work. How we… Continue reading The Relentless School Nurse: Expanding Advocacy and Storytelling on Substack