Recording: Ending Disparities in Mental Health Care

Together, we can make our mental health care system work for everyone. Minority populations often suffer from poor mental health outcomes because of inaccessibility of high-quality mental health care services, cultural stigma surrounding mental health care, discrimination, and overall lack of awareness about mental health.

Dr. Karinn Glover, MD, MPH (Consulting Psychiatrist at Montefiore Health System) and Ymani Hawkins, MSW (Psychotherapist and Diversity & Wellness Coach) have a conversation on the historical and systemic factors that have contributed to these disparities and actions you can take to affect change.

This event is the fourth in our series on how to help dismantle social injustice. Watch the previous events here:

About the panelists:
Dr. Karinn Glover, MD, MPH
Dr. Glover is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a consulting psychiatrist in the primary care division of Montefiore Health System. She teaches psychopharmacology and aspects of psychotherapy to Internal Medicine and Family Medicine residents. As a consulting psychiatrist, she is a member of a system-wide collaborative care based program to provide direct psychiatric care to medically and psychosocially complex patients in the Bronx. Dr. Glover has authored a peer-reviewed article on mental disorders in primary care, contributed to a textbook on psychiatric treatment in primary care and has extensive experience in psychopharmacology and substance disorder treatment and has contributed to various media outlets on a range of topics related to mental health and wellness.

Dr. Glover graduated from Howard University with a BA in History. She followed her curiosity about medicine and ultimately attended SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and obtained a Master of Public Health from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health via the highly competitive Macy Scholars Program.

Ymani Hawkins, MSW
Ymani is the founder of Deepish—a soon-to-be-launched consulting firm bridging the gap between mental health and diversity equity and inclusion. In her work, Ymani focuses on racial trauma promoting self care and mindfulness strategies to address topics amongst microaggressions, racial battle fatigue, and emotional labor in the workplace. Previously, she delivered inpatient and outpatient treatment services to clients of all ages and backgrounds experiencing severe and persistent mental illness such as dissociative, depressive, anxiety, and psychotic disorders at Mt. Carmel Guild School of Behavioral Health.

Ymani holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the Silver School of Social Work at New York University (NYU); a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Interpersonal Communication Studies from Kean University; has performed ethnographic research in Siargao, Philippines, and studied business and marketing in Athens, Greece. Ymani seeks to share her expertise and utilize her unique perspective of the world to drive sustainable change in the DEI space and build long lasting professional relationships.

[Meetup Live Recording, 9/24/2020]

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Don’t you think poor non-minorities have the same problem?
Why segregating this debate?