Tom Insel on the Mental Health Crisis and Behavioral Health Care Reform

<p><a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/newsletters?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter+landing+page">Sign up for FREE Health Affairs newsletters</a>.</p><br><p><em>Health Affairs</em>' Kathleen Haddad interviews Tom Insel, author of <a href="https://www.thomasinselmd.com/healing"><em>Healing: Our Path From Mental Illness to Mental Health</em></a>, on the latest federal efforts to reform mental and behavioral health care in the United States. Insel previously led the Mental Health Team at Verily and served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health.</p><p>Submit to <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfi5WQsAnybQlH8Ku4nkYX_v-7CxSSK3USrXEnsuvvw22gKjQ/viewform">You're A Health Policy Wonk If... Contest</a> (submissions will be taken through May 31, 2023).</p><p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p><ul> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/integrating-behavioral-health-primary-care-overcoming-decades-challenges?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week">Integrating Behavioral Health In Primary Care: Overcoming Decades of Challenges</a> (<em>Health Affairs Forefront</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00047">A New Approach To Mental Health Care, Imported From Abroad</a> (<em>Health Affairs</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/usc-brookings-schaeffer-on-health-policy/2022/04/04/tackling-unfinished-business-and-taking-on-current-challenges-putting-bidens-mental-health-proposals-in-context/">Tackling Unfinished Business and Taking on Current Challenges: Putting Biden's Mental Health Proposals in Context</a> (Brookings)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.chhs.ca.gov/home/children-and-youth-behavioral-health-initiative/">Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative</a> (CalHHS)</li> <li><a href="https://mindsitenews.org/">MindSite News</a></li> </ul><p>C<em>urrently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. </em><