This is Democracy – Episode 160: Mental Health and COVID

Jeremi and Zachary, with their guest Steve Sonnenberg, discuss the topic of mental health during the global pandemic. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, "In the Park with the Wide Fountain".  Steve Sonnenberg, MD, is a psychiatrist and medical humanities and ethics scholar. He serves as professor and associate chair for education in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Dell Medical School. He also holds the Paul Woodruff Professorship for Excellence in Undergraduate Studies in the School of Undergraduate Studies, where he chairs the faculty panel of the Bridging Disciplines Program “Patients, Practitioners, and Cultures of Care.” That program is designed to prepare healthcare undergraduates with the tools they will need later, as providers, to create a healthcare system where health is a human right and structural disparities in care are eliminated. This episode of This is Democracy was mixed and mastered by Ean Herrera.