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Advancing Mental Health Worldwide: Five Core Elements for Effective Strategies
More than one billion people worldwide live with a mental health condition (MHC). Despite the significant downstream economic...
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Featured
Report
Advancing Mental Health Worldwide: Five Core Elements for Effective Strategies
More than one billion people worldwide live with a mental health condition (MHC). Despite the significant downstream economic...
Read
Report
Mental Health
Highlights
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Advancing Mental Health Worldwide: Five Core Elements for Effective Strategies
More than one billion people worldwide live with a mental health condition (MHC). Despite the significant downstream economic, societal, and health challenges associated with MHCs, inconsistent funding, patchwork policies, and limited...Read Report
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Employer Action Exchange: Executive Reflections on Building Resilient Businesses Through Whole-Person Health Investments
Our Executive Insights series—part of the Milken Institute Employer Action Exchange—began in late 2023, capturing the voices of executives from various industries and sectors on the role employers of all sizes can play in investing in their...Read Report
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Global Insights: Opportunities for Government and Business to Advance Mental Health
Mental health challenges impact nearly one billion individuals worldwide, placing significant strain on both economies and societies. The cost of mental health conditions is projected to rise to $6 trillion USD globally by 2030, making the...Read ArticleImage
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Forging a Climate-Resilient Workplace for Next-Generation Employees
This summer’s unprecedented heat waves, flooding, wildfires, and extreme weather events have devastated communities, with widespread ripple effects on physical and mental health as people cope and adjust to a new normal. These effects of...Read Article
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Protecting Youth Online: Insights and Actions for Communities, Policymakers, and Organizations
The United States is facing a youth mental health crisis. Forty-two percent of high school students reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness, including 29 percent of boys, 57 percent of girls, and 69 percent of LGBTQ+ students...Read Report
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Employer Investments in Digital, Whole-Person Health for Substance Use Disorders
Employers seek to support their employees while normalizing a whole-person approach to substance use disorders (SUD). The response to addiction and the opioid crisis requires a whole-of-society approach, including employers of all sizes...Read Report
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Advancing Innovative Treatments for Mental Health Care
More than 50% of Americans will be diagnosed with a mental health condition at some point in their lifetime. There is a tremendous gap between the number of Americans struggling with a mental health condition and those who seek and are able...Read Report
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Is It Too Soon to Start Talking about a Cure for Addiction?
Our country remains in the grips of an opioid crisis claiming more than 100,000 lives every year. Rising mortality associated with drug addiction and excessive drinking is among the major factors contributing to declining life expectancy...Read Essay -
Racial Equity and Mental Health in the Workplace: Actions to Drive Systems Change
Nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 sparked many of the largest US corporations to pledge more than $200 billion to advance racial equity and confront the nation’s history of systemic racism. Nonprofits, government agencies, and...Read Report
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Featured Event Sessions
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Growing Up Unwell: Child, Youth, and Adolescent Health in the United StatesFuture of Health Summit 2025 -
Digital Media and Youth Mental Health2024 Global Conference Session -
Caring for Our Caregivers: Burnout and the Health-Care Workforce2023 Future of Health Summit Session -
Revolutionizing Mental Health Care Through Innovation2023 Future of Health Summit Session