On This Episode Of The Public Health Epidemiology Conversations (PHEC) Podcast
While mental health awareness is always relevant, it is a major focus in May. This episode includes the conversation from our recent Public Health Roundtable on the topic of mental health awareness in the public health arena. Join us as Dr. Huntley, Dr. McClamroch, LaShonda Richardson, MPH, and Ericka Horne, MPH, share their personal and professional perspectives on the importance of proper mental health support. Our guests share insights from their experiences and observations from their work in education and public health to explore how mental health is communicated within various communities. Touching on the power of vulnerability to eradicate stigma, our guests share how they have embraced telling their own stories in the hope of empowering others and unpack how they approach public health while championing mental health. Tune in today to hear all this and more.
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Conversation Highlights
Examples of the type of support offered by Dr. Huntley
The Public Health Roundtable that this episode is based on
Introducing LaShonda Richardson and her work as Founder of Emerge Public Health and Community Development
Kristi McClamroch, PhD, MPH, a Public Health Entrepreneur, shares about the book she is writing on the transmission of intergenerational trauma
Ericka Horne, MPH, CHES®, CEO introduces herself to listeners
This question this episode answers: how are we discussing mental health on a community level?
How the choice to be vulnerable helps to eradicate stigma
LaShonda’s approach to talking about mental health on a community level
Kristi’s experience of sharing her plans to tell her family’s story with her mother
Ericka’s approach to meeting people where they are in public health education
Doing public health with a mental health lens
Food for thought from Ericka: how are you looking after your own mental health while you serve others?
“If we’re going to continue to break the stigma around mental health in our communities, we have to normalize the conversations around mental health.” — Ericka Horne
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