Health Care Access & Coverage
Payment and Policy Solutions for America’s Mental Health Care Crisis
A Conversation with Tristan Gorrindo, MD, Haiden Huskamp, PhD, Madhuri Jha, LCSW, MPH, and Hoangmai Pham, MD, MPH, moderated by Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD
Mental health care remains a deeply troubled system, with inadequate funding, poor access, and ongoing workforce shortages. As the system reaches a breaking point, it has started to garner some attention: from President Biden in his State of the Union address, to Congress, in a rare show of amity as it considers legislation to address this crisis. But what is likely to emerge? Our panel delved in, considering better financing systems for mental health and promising new innovations in areas such as suicide prevention, crisis response, access to care for adolescents, workforce pay strategies, and how to make parity laws more effective.
Supported by the Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture Fund.
Speakers
Tristan Gorrindo, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Optum Behavioral Care
Haiden Huskamp, PhD
Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Madhuri Jha, LCSW, MPH
Director, Kennedy Satcher Center for Health Equity, Morehouse School of Medicine
Hoangmai Pham, MD, MPH
President, Institute for Exceptional Care
