Health Populi May 4, 2023
With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, there’s no shortage of press releases promoting a wide range of services and programs emerging from both the public and private sectors. In the wake of the COVID-19 public health crisis, the exposed epidemic-beyond-the-pandemic of mental health has inspired many collaborations between public, private commercial and not-for-profit organizations.
These have begun to embed mental health into the larger retail health ecosystem. I’ll point to several examples as signposts for this phenomenon.
Walgreens and Mental Health America – This collaboration expands Walgreens’ work with Mental Health America focusing in 2023 on youth. The partners will deploy a Back-to-School campaign in August 2023 to support adolescents and teens and their teachers. The program will create...