Young people across the nation are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated rates of depression, anxiety and suicide among adolescents that were already at historically high levels before the pandemic. Since 2020, mental health-related emergency room visits have increased 31% among adolescents, while suicide rates among teenagers rose 25%. President Biden acknowledged the severity of this crisis when he introduced a national, five-year initiative to tackle the current shortcomings of U.S. mental health care.
At this Baker Briefing, our experts will explore how the mental health community is overcoming barriers to treatment and how federal, state and local policy interventions could make a difference. The live recording is free and open to the public.
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Baker Briefing is a podcast that tackles the most critical foreign and domestic policy issues of the day in conversations with experts at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. Hosted by the Honorable David M. Satterfield, director of the Baker Institute, each episode is recorded in front of a live audience at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
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Participants
Featured Speakers
Rola El-Serag, M.D.
L.E. and Virginia Simmons Senior Fellow in Health Policy; Director, Center for Health & Biosciences, Baker Institute
Lillian Dindo, Ph.D.
Nonresident Fellow, Center for Health and Biosciences, Baker Institute; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine
Jan Lindsay, Ph.D.
Nonresident Fellow, Center for Health and Biosciences, Baker Institute; Health Services Researcher, Core Investigator and Licensed Psychologist, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Moderator
Edward M. Emmett
Fellow in Energy and Transportation Policy, Baker Institute
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