Scaling up childhood epilepsy management: lessons from India's school health program

In 2021, the WHO assessed national school health programs in Southeast Asia and collaborated with UNESCO to evaluate 87 school health interventions and identify essential components of comprehensive school health programs.1,2 Childhood epilepsy, despite being a significant neurological condition globally, lacked interventions from this list, primarily due to the lack of empirically validated, school-based epilepsy intervention strategies.2,3