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Dr. Tom Insel, a former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, sat down with PHP to discuss themes from his upcoming book Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health.

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Kevin Churchwell, MD, president and CEO of Boston Children’s Hospital, talks with PHP about why it’s so important to focus on children’s health.

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Peter Mirandi has more than 30 years of local public health experience in several Massachusetts communities.

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M. Daniele Fallin, PhD, is the chair of the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She studies how environments, behavior and genetic variation contribute to the risk of psychiatric disease.

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Gabriel Cortez is a poet, educator, organizer, and the director of programs at Youth Speaks where he works on The Bigger Picture – a project that is changing the conversation about health by engaging young spoken word poets.

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Mia Roberts is the vice president of community relations for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, one of nearly 300 affiliates of the National Big Brothers/Big Sisters Federation.

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Damon Chaplin spearheads public health efforts for New Bedford, working to close gaps in health equity as he leads the city’s Covid-19 response.

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Josh Trautwein is co-founder and CEO of About Fresh, a Boston organization that provides healthy and affordable food.

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Kellie Carter Jackson is a professor and historian at Wellesley College in the African Studies Department. Her work focuses on slavery, abolition, and the use of violence as political discourse.

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Ruqaiijah Yearby is a Professor of Law and member of the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law. She specializes in racial disparities within health care, the political economy of health care, and social justice in medical research.

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