Amplified: Race and Reality in STEM

In this webinar, Kisha B. Holden will explore the psycho-social, cultural, and environmental stressors that influence health disparities and inequities.

Learn to define strategies that help advance health equity and discover how to identify the stages of burnout, as well as diverse ways of coping, managing stress, and self-care.

About the Speaker

Kisha B. Holden, PhD, MSCR, is a psychologist and the Poussaint-Satcher Endowed Chair in Mental Health and associate director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. At Morehouse, she is a professor and director of research and scholarship for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine.

Holden has dedicated her career to encouraging mental health and well-being among ethnically and culturally diverse families through research, program initiatives, and the development of innovative strategies for informing health policies. She has placed a special emphasis on addressing the needs of underserved and underrepresented populations that are often overlooked, yet prevail in contributing to the myriad of health disparities. Holden aims to promote excellence in community-based clinical and translational mental health research, develop innovative programs that improve accessibility of individuals to comprehensive health care, and develop culturally centered, gender-specific, resilience-based prevention, and intervention models for individuals at risk for depression.