The Mental Elf

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Dr. Burke-Garcia is a seasoned health communications professional with nearly 20 years of experience in health communication program planning, implementation and evaluation, with specific expertise in developing and evaluating digital and social media communication and research programs. At NORC, she leads the organization's Digital Strategy and Outreach Program Area, where she designs and implements strategies that leverage the power of digital media to influence behavior. In this role, Dr. Burke-Garcia develops new digital and mobile data collection methodologies and communication solutions.

She has been overseeing the award-winning How Right Now / Qué Hacer Ahora campaign since 2020, which aims to increase people’s ability to cope and be resilient amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. She currently leads two grants focused on exploring vaccine hesitancy amongst communities of color that build on her earlier work exploring messages and motivations of vaccine-hesitant or refusing social media influencers (findings from which were published in Vaccine in 2020).

Over the course of her career, Dr. Burke-Garcia has spearheaded some of the most innovative communication programs and studies on a variety of health topics, including designing a targeted social media intervention with mommy bloggers to help social media users lower their risk for breast cancer, and leveraging MeetUp groups and the Waze mobile application to move people to action around flu vaccination and HIV testing, respectively.

She is the author of the book, Influencing Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Social media influencers, and her new book, Communicating Through a Pandemic: A Chronicle of Experiences, Lessons Learned, and a Vision for the Future, is slated to be released this year. She has been highlighted by the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, for her work in honor of Women’s History Month and has been named to VeryWellHealth.com’s list of 10 Modern Female Innovators Shaking Up Health Care.

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Apryl Alexander is the Metrolina Medical Foundation Distinguished Scholar and an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at UNC Charlotte. A recognized expert in sexual abuse treatment programs, her research has been published in leading journals, including Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice; Criminal Justice Review; Child Maltreatment; Journal of Child Sexual Abuse; Journal of Sexual Aggression; and Sexual Abuse. She currently serves on the editorial board for Criminal Justice and Behavior and as an editorial consultant for the Journal of Black Psychology.

Dr. Alexander was the co-founder and former co-director of the University of Denver’s Prison Arts Initiative, a program providing therapeutic, educational creative arts programming to incarcerated men and women in Colorado State prisons. She has served as a Board Member for a number of different nonprofit organizations. In 2020, Dr. Alexander was unanimously appointed to the Denver Citizen Oversight Board (COB) by the Denver City Council and served a two-year term.

Currently, she serves on the Transformational Community Engagement and Collaboration (TCEC) Advisory Board for the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CCASA) and the Wisdom Keeper Advisory Committee for the WINGS Foundation. She is also an Advisory Board for Breaking Code Silence, an organization dedicated to ending the troubled teen industry.

https://www.ted.com/talks/apryl_alexander_sexual_violence_is_preventable_here_s_how/

Dr. Anica Talks Activism with Dr. Apryl Alexander

http://www.aprylalexander.com/

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Dr Laura Bringmann is an assistant professor at the Psychometrics and Statistics department of the University of Groningen. Laura Bringmann's LaBLab is all about the methodology around intensive longitudinal data, with special attention to modelling change.

This podcast interview took place before the 2022 International Conference on Urban Mental Health, which is taking place in Amsterdam on Friday 7th October.

Find out more on the #ICoUMH Conference website.

Further reading (mentioned by Laura Bringmann in the podcast):

Bringmann, L. F., Elmer, T., & Eronen, M. I. (2022). Back to basics: The importance of conceptual clarification in psychological science. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31(4), 340-346. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221096485

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Dr. Andrea Wittenborn is Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University. In this podcast she talks about her research, which explores methods for personalising treatment for depression, which she will be presenting at the 2022 International Conference on Urban Mental Health, which is taking place in Amsterdam on Friday 7th October.

Find out more on the #ICoUMH Conference website.

Papers mentioned by Dr. Wittenborn in the interview:

Wittenborn, A. K., Rahmandad, H., Rick, J., & Hosseinichimeh, N. (2016). Depression as a systemic syndrome: Mapping the feedback loops of major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine, 46, 551-562. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291715002044

Hosseinichimeh, N., Wittenborn, A. K., Rick, J., Jalali, M. S., & Rahmandad, H. (2018). Modeling and estimating the feedback mechanisms among depression, rumination, and stressors in adolescents. PLOS ONE, 13(9), e0204389. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204389

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Prof Sandro Galea from the Boston University School of Public Health talks about the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, and previews his talk on urban mental health, which is taking place at the 2022 International Conference on Urban Mental Health in Amsterdam on Friday 7th October.

Find out more on the #ICoUMH Conference website.

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Prof Peter Sloot, Professor of Complex Adaptive Systems at the University of Amsterdam, speaks to us before the International Conference on Urban Mental Health, which is taking place in Amsterdam on Friday 7th October 2022.

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Prof Claudi Bockting and Prof Reinout Weirs, Co-Directors of the International interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Mental Health at the University of Amsterdam, speak about the 2022 International Conference on Urban Mental Health, which is taking place in Amsterdam on Friday 7th October.

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Edward Watkins is Professor of Experimental and Applied Clinical Psychology at the University of Exeter.

At the #ECoWeB conference in Barcelona on Monday 12th September 2022, Ed speaks to Mark Brown who is reporting from The Mental Elf.

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