Navdep Kaur, M.P.H., joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss persistent racial and ethnic disparities in mental health treatment access and outcomes prior to and following the passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act.  Ms. Kaur is a predoctoral fellow at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York.

• Kaur interview [01:01]
• Connecting your work with your passion [03:09]
• Affordable Care Act and mental health [05:39]
• What did you look at to study this? [09:11]
• What are we talking about when we talk about distress? [10:06]
• How do you define treatment usage? [11:30]
• What are your hypotheses for why your findings on mental health treatment usage look the way they do? [13:11]
• Disaggregating data for disparate groups [14:40]
• Has the amount of treatment change overall differed between subgroups and the whole population? [17:42]
• How do you categorize the various levels of stigma and attitudes towards treatment? [19:16]
• Sources of market failure – lack of providers, insurance, access [21:21]
• What would a data set that could answer your questions look like? [22:22]
• What are you working on next? [24:34]
• Has your passion survived contact with sample sizes, measures, and the nitty gritty of data sets? [25:20]

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