Julie SprayJulie Spray

Julie Spray is an honorary fellow at the University of Auckland's School of Population Health, and a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Auckland in 2018 and her book, The Children in Child Health: Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand is newly available through Rutgers University Press.

Children are experiencing the pandemic too

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The world has suddenly shifted into disruption and uncertainty, and children’s lives are shifting with it. What does Covid-19 mean for children? I study children’s experiences of health and illness, and for my doctoral research I spent a year in an Auckland school listening to children about the rheumatic fever (RF) epidemic. Here’s what their … Read more