Online Program: "Workplace Mental Health: What’s Normal Now?"

This program is part of the “Learning from the Pandemic” series, sponsored by Bayer. Co-hosted between the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents and the National Press Foundation, which are solely responsible for the content.

For the past century, in many countries, the office was the place where people of all ages – and increasingly of all genders, races, nationalities, and ethnicities – gathered.

Lifetime friendships and romances were formed. Rivalries began. And mental health issues emerged: anxiety, depression, even violence. For many people, those one-on-one relationships went away with COVID-19 quarantines. But what happens to the workplace when the pandemic finally eases and people get off Zoom and back into the commuting lanes? Can it be made a healthier and happier place?

In this briefing hosted by the National Press Foundation and the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States, we will explore new trends in workplace mental health and how they will affect societies, businesses, and interpersonal relationships around the world

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M. Daniele (DANI) Fallin, Ph.D., is the Sylvia and Harold Halpert Professor and Chair of the Department of Mental Health and the Director of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also holds joint appointments in School’s Epidemiology and Biostatistics Departments as well as in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry. Her research group studies how environments, behaviors, genetic variation, and epigenetic variation contribute to the risk for psychiatric disease, particularly autism.

She has been PI and site PI for multi-site autism epidemiology studies including the Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) and the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) cohort. She earned a Ph.D. in Genetic Epidemiology at Case Western Reserve University before coming to Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology in 2001. She has served as a standing member of two neuropsychiatric epidemiology-focused NIH study sections, NAME, and BGES, and is currently on the scientific advisory board for Autism Speaks and an Associate Editor for Autism Research.

Pat Drew has spent twenty years managing Employee Assistance Programs and counseling employees in workplace settings. At the New York Times for 20 years, Pat Drew designed the seminal programs for coaching correspondents in war zones, after hostage situations, or otherwise being detained. She has provided these services to over 100 journalists at the New York Times, CNN, Getty Images, McClatchy News, Committee to Protect Journalists, Global Journalists Security, and other media and advocacy organizations. She has particular expertise in helping others develop resilience, manage transition, and manage their careers.

Amy Geffen, PhD is President of Geffen Careers. Career and leadership coach working with GetFive and Prositions as well as private clients. She has over 30 years of experience in management, finance, engineering and non-profits. She has a BA from Brooklyn College, an MA from Harvard University and a PhD from New York University.

ATHANASIOS DIMADISDecember 3, 2020