Our health care system stands at a crossroads as it struggles with how to appropriately finance health care. The fee-for-service system, the dominant payment model in the U.S., is widely recognized as perhaps one of the single biggest obstacles to reforming health...
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is on a mission, not just to catalyze systemic reforms in mental health, but also to use our accumulated knowledge and platform to address some of the world’s most vexing problems. In this episode, former Hogg...
AUSTIN, Texas – Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., executive director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and associate vice president for diversity and community engagement at The University of Texas at Austin, has been appointed by the National Academies of...
William S. Bush is a professor of history at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. His forthcoming book, “Circuit Riders for Mental Health: The Hogg Foundation and the Transformation for Mental Health in Texas.” The book is an exhaustively researched and...
A personal and deeply moving article appeared in The Atlantic on June 8 titled How to Fix A Broken Mental-Health System. The author shares the personal account of his son’s battle with severe mental illness and points to the shortcomings of today’s mental health...
Health and wellness apps are much in the news these days, and now with Thrive@UT, the new mental health app geared toward students, The University of Texas at Austin has staked its own claim on this new frontier. In this episode of Into the Fold, Chris Brownson, Elana...
