Day 1 Activities: Experience Dartmouth: Nature as Rx

Come experience how Dartmouth's profound sense of place that translates mental health and well-being theories into integrative practice.

Option 1:

10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Hiking Holt's Ledge

Join a moderately rigorous out-and-back 3.5-mile hike. Part of the Appalachian Trail, journey along the Dartmouth Skiway for a 360-degree view of local mountain peaks and peregrine falcons.

Option 2: choose 1 per block

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Hiking Gile Mountain

Join a beginner-friendly 1.4-mile hike through woodsy trails and climb a firetower for a 360-degree view of local mountain peaks.

Forest Bathing Among the Pines

Join a gentle, guided forest walk along the river, grounded in the science-backed practice of "shinrin-yoku," to restore reciprocity with the more-than-human world.

Paddling on the Connecticut

Join a river adventure down the Connecticut River with kayaks or canoes with New Hampshire on one side and Vermont on the other.

Please note: This activity will only be available if the water temperatures remain above 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Option 3:

12:15 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Hiking Balch Hill

Join a beginner-friendly one-mile hike through woodsy trails with a moderate incline to a summit meadow and birdwatching.

Forest Bathing Among the Pines

Join a gentle, guided forest walk along the river, grounded in the science-backed practice of "shinrin-yoku", to restore reciprocity with the more-than-human world.

Paddling on the Connecticut

Join a river adventure down the Connecticut River with kayaks or canoes with New Hampshire on one side and Vermont on the other.

Please note: This activity will only be available if the water temperatures remain above 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Day 1: A Day of Experience: Practicing the Whole Person Approach to Youth Well-Being

2:30–3:30 p.m. 
Light Snacks & Refreshments

3:30- 4:30 p.m. 
Dartmouth Grown Initiatives: Outdoors

Hanover Inn, ½ Grand Ballroom West

Introduction & Welcome: David Blanchflower (Prof. Economics, Dartmouth)

Moderator: Bruce Sacerdote, ’90 (Prof. Economics, Dartmouth)

Panelists:

Tommy Clark, ’92, MED ’01 (Grassroots Soccer)

Phil Ginsburg ’89 (General Manager, Recreation & Parks Department of San Francisco)

4:30-5:30 p.m. 
Dartmouth Grown Initiatives: Whole Student Well-Being

Hanover Inn, ½ Grand Ballroom West

Moderator: Jennifer Rosales (SVP, Community & Campus Life, Chief Student Affairs Officer, Dartmouth)

Panelists:

Diane Gilbert-Diamond ’98 (Prof. of Epidemiology, Medicine and Pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth)

Mary Lou Aleskie (Executive Director, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth)

Willow Nilsen (Nature as Rx, Associate Director Dartmouth Outdoor Programs)

Sarah C. Crockett (MD FAWM DiMM, ER Physician, DHMC, Founder, Wilderness Medicine Program & Alliance for Climate Health, Dartmouth)

5:30-6:30 p.m. 
Food and Conversation

Day 2: Revealing the Crisis: Evidence, Engagement & the Decline in Youth Well-Being

9-9:15 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction

Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium

David Blanchflower (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth)

Sian Leah Beilock (President, Dartmouth)

Lisa McBride (Associate Dean for DICE Office, Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth)

9:15-10:45 a.m. 
Surgeons General Panel

Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium

Moderator: Timothy Wilens (Department Chair, Psych Faculty Leadership MGPO, Mass General Research Institute)

Panelists: 

Antonia Coello Novello

M. Joycelyn Elders

David Satcher

Richard H. Carmona

Jerome M. Adams

Vivek H. Murthy

Surgeons General Program (PDF)

11 a.m.-12 p.m. 

The Anxious Generation

Hopkins Center, Spaulding Auditorium

Moderator: David Blanchflower (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth) 

Jonathan Haidt (Professor, Stern School of Business, NYU)-Virtual Participant

1-2 p.m. 
The Challenge Before Us: Declines in Youth Mental Health Around the Globe

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Jean Twenge (Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University)

David Blanchflower (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth)

2-3 p.m. 
The Collapse in the Mental Health of the Young

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: David Blanchflower (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth)

Jean Twenge (Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University)

3:15-4:30 p.m. 
Loneliness, Attention, and Social Connections

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: David Blanchflower (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth) 

Panelists: 

Nick Christakis (Professor of Sociology, Yale) 

Darrin McMahon (Professor of History, Dartmouth) 

D. Graham Burnett (Professor of History, Princeton)

4:30- 5:30 p.m. 
Declining Test Scores and What to Do About It

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Jean Twenge (Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University)

Panelists:

Doug Staiger (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth)

Tom Kane (Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Day 3: From Insight to Action: A Global Agenda for Youth Well-Being

8:15-9:15 a.m. 
Mind Matters for Development: Why Care and How to Act

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Josefin Pasanen (UNDP Human Development Report Office)

Panelists:

Daniel Fortune Molokele (Parliamentarian, Zimbabwe)

Evan Faiq Gabro (Minister of Migration and Displaced, Iraq)

Maria Walsh (Co-chair, Member of the European Parliament, MEPs inter-group on Mental Health)

Abu Sayed (Director General, Dept. of ICT, ICT Ministry, Bangladesh)

Pedro Conceição (UN Director of the Human Development Report) 

V. Anantha Nageswaran (Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India) - virtual 

9:15-10:30 a.m. 
From Whence the Problem? Not Bowling at All?

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Bob Putnam (Professor of Public Policy, Harvard)

Panelists:

Jean Twenge (Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University)

Maurizio Pugno (Professor of Economics, University of Cassino, Italy)

Alex Bryson (Social Research Institute, University College London)

10:45-11:30 a.m. 
Keynote Address: What Makes a Satisfying Life

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Alex Bryson (Professor of Quantitative Social Science, University College London)

Andrew Clark (Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics)

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 
Commercially Addressing Mental Health Disparities

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Julia Bernstein ’07 (Chief Operations Officer, Brightside Health) 

Panelists: 

Ed Gaussen (President, Co-Founder, Mantra Health) 

Craig Lund ’02 (Co-Founder, Mightier) 

Sander Duncan ’09 (CEO, Founder, Sespe Health Holdings)

1:30-2:15 p.m. 
Measuring Global Mental Health

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: David Blanchflower (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth)

Tara Thiagarajan (Founder, Sapien Labs)

Randall Winn (Founder, CapitalIQ and 22c)

2:15-3:15 p.m. 
Children & Mental Health: Views From the Front Lines

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Jim Sargent (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth)

Panelists:

Njeri Karianjahi (University of Nairobi, Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, Kenya)

Susanne Tanski (PCP, Pediatrics at Dartmouth Health)

JoAnna Leyenaar (Children’s Inpatient Pediatrics at Dartmouth Health)

Jen McLaren (Children's Psychiatric Services at Dartmouth Health)

3:15-4:15 p.m. 
Dartmouth Grown Solutions: Technology & AI

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Bruce Sacerdote '90 (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth)

Panelists:

Lynn E. Fiellin (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth)

Andrew Campbell (Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth)

Lisa Marsch (Center for Technology & Behavioral Health at Geisel)

Nicholas Jacobson (Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Psychiatry, Center for Technology & Behavioral Health at Geisel)

4:30-5:30 p.m. 
Advancing Mental Well-Being in Policy & Practice

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

Moderator: Roy Small (UNDP Health Team)

Panelists: 

Paulo Rossi Menezes  (Sao Paulo University, Brazil)

Tawhida Shiropa (Founder & CEO, Moner Bondhu, Bangladesh)

Valeriia Palii (President, National Mental Health Association, Ukraine)

Victor Ugo (MHPSS Collaborative, and Founder, Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative) - virtual 

5:30-5:45 p.m. 
Summation

Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom

David Blanchflower (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth)