The Future of Mental Health

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According to the Lancet Commission, the world's failure to respond to the global mental health crisis has resulted in a "monumental loss of human capabilities and avoidable suffering." The sheer scale of this crisis is a need that cannot be met by the healthcare system and mental health startups alone. The future of mental health involves all of us. Organized as a speaker series, this course delivers rich and diverse content in the form of interviews and conversations between mental health clinicians, and leaders and innovators across a multidisciplinary set of fields including athletics, entertainment, journalism, politics, business, medicine/science, tech, education and beyond. Speakers will share their personal experiences with mental health, how they have led change in today's mental health landscape, and what we need to be doing to create a new future for mental health that is accessible, equitable and de-stigmatized. This series of conversations is meant to showcase the role that we can all play in addressing the mental health crisis, whether teaching students, managing a team, advocating for BLM, designing a product, or posting on Instagram. Open to all Stanford students, encourage students from all types of graduate and undergraduate programs to register. Required brief weekly reflection process.