Nearly one in five adults in the U.S. lives with a mental health condition. This number is increasing in the wake of the year we have just experienced. Mental health issues can take many shapes and affect people from all walks of life. If you or a loved one lives with a mental health condition, you are not alone.

Join Healthline Media for Mental Health in Focus, a virtual event in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. Our guests include artists, entertainers, journalists, and advocates, each of whom tells a personal story about their mental health journey via books, broadcasts or foundations that advance the public conversation.

Mental Health Advocates and Speakers:

- Taraji P. Henson, Actor, Writer, Producer, and Director 
- Jewel, Singer-songwriter, and Author 
- Michelle Williams, Singer, Actress, and Author 
- Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent 
- Bershan Shaw, TV Personality, Motivational Speaker, and Business Coach 
- Dan Harris, ABC News Correspondent and Co-Anchor 
- Wilma Mae Basta, Founder at DRK Beauty 

Healthline Moderators 

Erin Petersen-Edge, Healthline.com Editor in Chief 
Faye McCray, PsychCentral.com Editor in Chief 
Steve Swasey, Healthline Media Vice President of Communications

Healthline Live Town Hall: Mental Health in Focus

Americans are stressed about healthcare services and costs. It’s their number one concern in this year’s presidential election. Now more than ever, people want evidence-based and unbiased information about the policies that affect their health and access to care. Join us for a free Live Town Hall featuring healthcare policy experts, non-partisan industry officials, and patient advocates.

Healthline Live Town Hall: Healthcare Policy Edition

One year since the World Health Organization named COVID-19 a pandemic we have renewed hope, stronger communities and plans for mass vaccinations. But COVID-19 has altered our lives forever. On the pandemic’s first anniversary, Healthline Media hosts a Live Town Hall featuring celebrities, journalists and experts who have contracted and survived the virus, and reported on it on the national stage. Join us for a discussion of heartache and hope, and how our resiliency will result in a stronger, healthier world.

Guests include: 
Lesley Stahl, Correspondent, CBS 60 Minutes
D.L. Hughley, Comedian and Author
Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent
Brian Stokes Mitchel, Tony Award-Winning Actor
Alyssa Milano, Actor & Activist
Paula Green-Smith & Phillip Hamilton, Urban Health Resource & Black Women's Health Imperative

Healthline Live Town Hall: COVID-19 One Year Retrospective

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