The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in partnership with Comunilife, is sponsoring an event on the pandemic’s impact on mental health in communities of color, including the correlation between depression and anxiety and economic factors such as lost income.
Among the confirmed speakers are:
- Moderator: Rosa M. Gil, Founder, President & CEO, Comunilife, Inc., and Deputy Chair of the New York Fed Board of Directors
- Ann Marie T. Sullivan, M.D., NYS State Commissioner of Mental Health
- Theresa Torres, Chief Diversity Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Olivier Armantier, AVP Research Economist from the Federal Reserve
- Nirmita Panchal, Senior Policy Analyst of the Kaiser Family Foundation
- Sherry Glied, dean of the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU
- Adam Brown, associate professor of clinical psychology and vice provost for research, The New School
- Alfiee M. Breland-Noble, Ph.D., MHSc.
The Mental Health in Communities of Color event is part of a broader body of work the New York Fed is undertaking on the economic drivers of health and wellbeing. Nearly $1 trillion is spent annually in the U.S. on chronic health conditions that stem from poverty and structural disparities. Preventing these chronic conditions would have broad economic benefits
Agenda
May 26, 2021
10:00am – 11:15am EDT
The event is open to the public and the media. All remarks are on the record and the event will be recorded.
