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...
We are now at the tail end of what has been a busy and fun year of celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Hogg Foundation’s founding. We have created a beautiful commemorative website, Hogg History, that does justice to the trove of materials in our archives....
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...
