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The Health Burden of Stress
What We Can Do About It

Summary

For many of us, stress is an omnipresent and frequently overwhelming factor of day-to-day life. As we begin to better understand its toll on our health, this Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health event – in connection with a new poll by HSPH, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR – shared the story of stress as perceived by many Americans. What are the biggest sources of stress? How can it affect our health? And what can we do in our homes, workplaces and communities to help us manage stress and to live calmer – and healthier – lives?

Do you have resources to share to help manage stress to improve health? Tweet your ideas using hashtag #BurdenofStress.

Part of: Policy Controversies.

Presented in Collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR

Background Articles

  • Stress: Withstanding the Waves
    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Harvard School of Public Health Opinion Research Program
  • NPR
    Shots (Health News from NPR)
  • Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
    MGH
  • Poll: The Burden of Stress in America
    NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health
  • Press Release: NPR/RWJF/HSPH Poll finds health most common major stressful event in Americans’ lives last year
    HSPH

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Moderator

Joe Neel
Deputy Senior Supervising Editor and a Correspondent on the Science Desk, NPR

Expert Participants

Kristin Schubert
Managing Director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Robert Blendon
Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Emeritus, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Joshua Riff
Medical Director and Director of Health and Wellbeing, Target Corporation, and Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Physician

Gregory Fricchione
Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Director of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine, and Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Event Resources

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