Super Proud

I am a big rememberer that education does not equal intelligence, and that book learnin' does not equal common sense, but I have to tell you, that of all the reasons I feel fortunate to have attended the schools I did, Bloomberg's committment to public mental health is right up there.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the only school of public health in the world with an academic department devoted to the study of mental illness and disability.

It's the reason I found my career passion and had such fertile ground to explore it. It's the reason, I believe, that our overall public health program has one of the most humane faces I've seen out of all the programs out there. And it's certainly the reason I've learned from and been inspired by the variety of astounding academic mentors I worked under as a 20-to-24-year-old, and who I will carry with me in my work throughout my lifetime.

Congratulations to some of those mentors, and to the school in general, for this awesome accomplishment:

http://www.jhsph.edu/news/stories/2013/mental_health_book.html

I dream of living in a world where mental health is treated with as much preventative care, and as little stigma, as physical health. Thanks for the step forward, JHSPH!