The Silent Public Health Epidemic: Suicide and the Workforce
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Suicide continues to be a leading cause of death, impacting ages 10-64. While the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted strains among our workforce: physicians, first responders, frontline workers, and educators and students, mental health service gaps and trends were identified prior to this pandemic. Increasing access to services, interrupting access to lethal means, reducing stigma, allocating resources, and creating policy change will be critical to reverse a 20-year trend of preventable morbidity and mortality impacting individuals, families, communities and industries. Join us for a conversation to address this silent epidemic through a focus on the caregivers who have worked tirelessly in times of crisis.
Matthew Hurford, MD, FCPP
President and CEO
Community Care Behavioral Health
Jill Bowen, PhD
Commissioner
Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services
Sosunmolu Shoyinka, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services
Mona Masood, DO
Founder & Chief Organizer
Physician Support Line
Matthew Wintersteen, PhD
Director of Research, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Thomas Jefferson University
Corey Feist, JD, MBA
Co-Founder Dr Lorna Breen's Hero Foundation
CEO, UVA Physicians Group
This Public Health Grand Rounds is presented by The Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in coordination with Philadelphia Department of Public Health with funding support from the Independence Foundation.
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