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Our new four-part series, in partnership with the MIND Project at Harvard University, focuses on mental health in science and medicine today. In part one, guests Isabel Castanho, PhD, head of communications for the the Mind Project, and Heather Burrell Ward, MD, psychiatrist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discuss mental health issues currently affecting physicians, graduate students, postdocs, and medical trainees. Additional reading: Report of the task force on managing student mental health 2020 from Harvard University https://provost.harvard.edu/files/provost/files/report_of_the_task_force_on_managing_student_mental_health.pdf “Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing” (Johnson and Lester, 2021) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23664 “Mental Health in Academia: Shedding light on those who provide support” (Loissel, 2020) https://elifesciences.org/articles/64739 “Mental Health in Academia: The Role of Workplace Relationships” (Moulin, 2020)