Health

Embracing innovation in mental health

May 02, 2022

Global

Embracing innovation in mental health

May 02, 2022

Global
Taylor Puhl

Manager in the Health Policy Practice

Taylor is a manager in the Health Policy Practice at Economist Impact. She works within a multidisciplinary team on research and analysis programs across the health sector. She has experience in health disparities, noncommunicable diseases, mental health, and health systems with a focus on developing countries. She specializes in primary research and evidence synthesis.

Taylor holds a Master of Science in Global Health from Georgetown University and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in public health at the University of Virginia.

Embracing innovation in mental health is a report by Economist Impact exploring the role of innovation to improve equity and access to mental health care.

Despite recent widespread recognition of the need to improve mental health care in the US, individuals continue to experience numerous unmet needs across the care pathway. Challenges persist for accessing care, understanding mental illness, delivering quality care and measuring the true burden of these conditions. While encouraging developments have occurred and promising innovations emerge, standalone solutions are not enough. 

This paper aims to examine the under-appreciated barriers to greater development, implementation and uptake of innovation across the care pathway to achieve an improved environment for mental health in the US.

To explore how else might we innovate mental health, Keeping pace: innovating the mental-health care patient journey, an Economist Impact Events webinar, is available for on-demand viewing. Our panel of experts discuss why providing tailored and individualised care for every patient will require innovation across the spectrum of treatment — and at every point of the care journey.

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