Improving Community Well-being: Psychology’s Role in Advancing Population Health

A population health approach aims to address the broad and complex nature of behavioral health conditions, promising improved health outcomes for everyone. Expanding beyond traditional one-on-one therapy, this strategy utilizes a wider range of tools to tackle mental health disparities. Learn about current APA initiatives and partnerships that are advancing this way of thinking, hear about examples from psychology aligned with a population health approach, and discover opportunities to engage in these important efforts - as an APA member and in their own communities.
Speaker Panel:
-- Cynthia de las Fuentes, PhD, 2024 President, American Psychological Association
-- Arthur Evans Jr., PhD, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, American Psychological Association
-- Pim Cuijpers, PhD, Professor emeritus of Clinical Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-- Alfonso Mercado, PhD, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Psychological Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
-- Isha W. Metzger, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgia State University
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