Health 2049: Dr. Michael Lindsey, Executive Director, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, New York University

Jason Helgerson co-hosts the Health 2049 podcast with Bisi Williams of the Massive Change Network.

Dr. Michael Lindsey imagines the opportunities in using innovative technology to offer mental health services to marginalized communities, bridging the longstanding gaps between need and access.

Dr. Michael Lindsey is Executive Director of NYU Silver’s McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research and is the School's Constance and Martin Silver Professor of Poverty Studies. A child and adolescent mental health services researcher, Dr. Lindsey is particularly interested in the prohibitive factors that lead to unmet mental health need among vulnerable youth with serious psychiatric illnesses, including depression and suicide. He has received research support from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to examine the social network influences on perceptual and actual barriers to mental health care among Black adolescent males with depression. He also received NIMH funding to develop and test a treatment engagement intervention that promotes access to and use of mental health services among depressed adolescents in school- and community-based treatment. He is also an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow.