Since its inception in 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month has served as a way to encourage people to seek treatment without shame while also educating people on the topic.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, it is estimated that one in five U.S. adults live with mental illness.
The George Washington University has a number of leading experts available for interviews on a wide range of mental health topics. To interview an expert, please contact the GW media relations team at gwmedia
gwu [dot] edu (gwmedia[at]gwu[dot]edu).
Lorenzo Norris, is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Amir Afkhami is the vice chair for Clinical Affairs and the director of Medical Student Education of the GW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
explores daily patterns of coping and barriers to social connection (e.g., social anxiety; rejection), with a focus on people who are vulnerable to social stress.
Kathleen Roche, a professor of prevention and community health at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health, is an expert on adolescent mental health in immigrant Latino families. She can talk about factors that can lead to depression and anxiety in Latino teens.
Rhonda Schwindt, associate professor of nursing, leads efforts to prepare future nurse practitioners in providing affirming mental health care to transgender and gender-expansive patients. She can discuss this work and the mental and physical health disparities in the LGBTQ population as well as the impacts of discrimination in healthcare overall.
Tony Roberson, an associate professor of nursing, is a mental health expert. He is an expert on anxiety, depression and childhood development.
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