Season’s Greetings

Academia plays an important role in preparing healthcare administrators to step up in a crisis, as well as to keep things running day-to-day.

In light of the current state of affairs in the United States following the murder of George Floyd, we wanted to ensure that the ongoing work to address issues of diversity and inequity does not fade into yet another academic but irrelevant set of meetings where everyone simply admires the problem.

Despite its simple definition and advances in our understanding of mental illnesses, it is often associated with words and phrases like weakness, being a phase, fake, or shame. This stigma related to mental health, mental illness, and mental health diagnosis too often leads to discrimination.