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The concurrent crises of the pandemic, economic fallout and racial inequities are creating a recipe for another crisis—in mental health. Brown Advisory’s Bertie Thomson sits down with Dr. Ray DePaulo of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Kristen Roby Dimlow of Microsoft and Dr. Richard Frank of Harvard Medical School to gain a deeper understanding of the stressors, as well as solutions, posed by this challenging time.

Guests:
J. Raymond DePaulo Jr., M.D.
Co-director, Mood Disorders Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Kristen Roby Dimlow
Corporate Vice President, Human Resources, Microsoft

Richard Frank, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Economics, Harvard Medical School

Host:
Bertie Thomson, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Brown Advisory

Background Reading: 

• Helping Your Team Heal, Harvard Business Review, July/August 2020
• Why Do We Only Care about Long-Term Care in a Crisis, The Hill, May 22, 2020
• Make Time to Focus on Mental Health, LinkedIn, May 18, 2020
• The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Use, Kaiser Family Foundation, April 21, 2020
• Loneliness Was a Public Health Crisis Long Before Social Distancing. Here’s How We Can Solve It, TIME, March 26, 2020
• That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief, Harvard Business Review, March 23, 2020
• The State of Mental Health in America, Mental Health America, 2020
• The IndieFlix Trilogy: A Digital Wellness & Mental Health Awareness Toolkit

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