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Pressure Points: Leading mental health innovation

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Pressure Points is a webinar series co-hosted by The Studio and the Advanced Learning Academy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health bringing you inside the business of health care.

Mental health needs are rising globally, with young people facing particularly persistent challenges. At the same time, advances in technology and digital health are creating new opportunities for prevention, earlier intervention, and expanded access. In this forward-thinking conversation, experts discussed how health leaders can evaluate emerging approaches, overcome systemic barriers, and translate innovation into effective, equitable, and sustainable mental health care at scale.  

SPEAKERS

Vikram Patel, Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Kevin Simon, First Chief Behavioral Health Officer for the City of Boston

Lydia Anne Shrier, Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Shekhar Saxena, Former Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Program Director of Mental Health Leadership: Transformation Through Innovation, Harvard Chan Advanced Learning Academy

MODERATOR

Rifat Atun, Dean of Education and Innovation, Julio Frenk Professor of Public Health Leadership, Professor of Global Health Systems, Director of the Harvard Chan Advanced Learning Academy and Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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