Joseph E. Aoun, a leader in higher education policy and a renowned scholar in linguistics, is the seventh President of Northeastern University.
President Aoun has strategically aligned the University’s research enterprise with three global imperatives—health, security, and sustainability. Northeastern’s faculty focus on interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and transforming academic research into commercial solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. During President Aoun’s tenure, the University has realized a 189 percent growth in external research funding, along with approximately 1,500 patent applications filed by faculty and students.
There is no segment of the population immune from the impact of COVID-19, but how each of us addresses our individual concerns and stresses varies dramatically. Treating mental health is never a one-size-fits-all endeavor; the pandemic is only reinforcing that. Experts Christine Crawford, MD, MPH (associate director, Psychiatry Medical Student Education, Boston University), Irene Falgas-Bague, MD, PhD (clinical psychiatrist/research scientist, Disparities Research Unit, Mongan Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital), and Deirdre Calvert MSW, LICSW (director, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, Massachusetts Department of Public Health) join Blue Cross Senior Medical Director Ken Duckworth, MD to answer the questions weighing on so many of us during this health and economic crisis. Blue Cross President and CEO Andrew Dreyfus opens the conversation.
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