Proceedings From a National Summit on Workplace Mental Health and Well-being: A Focus on the Graduate Academic

Enid Chung Roemer1, Ron Z Goetzel, Meghan F Davis

  • 1From the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., R.Z.G., M.F.D., E.J.M.); Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., R.Z.G., Y.Z., K.B.K.); Johns Hopkins P.O.E. Total Worker Health® Center in Mental Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., R.Z.G., M.F.D., Y.Z., K.B.K.); Gallup, Washington, DC (J.H.); Johns Hopkins School of Education, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.O.M.); The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (J.M.T.); University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (L.H.); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (K.J.S.); and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio (J.V.).

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