Supporting a Healthier American Workplace

Join the New America Foundation’s Workforce and Family Program, the American Psychological Association, and Workplace Flexibility 2010, for a briefing to highlight the interaction between work-life conflict and health outcomes. The event will explore the impact of work-life balance on the health of workers, their families, employers, and communities. Experts will discuss the role of workplace flexibility in eliminating, limiting, or preventing injury and disease, achieving health equity, creating social and physical environments that promote good health, healthy development, and healthy behaviors.

This briefing is consponsored by the Congressional Mental Health Caucus and its co-chairs, Rep. Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA).

Participants

Co-Sponsors
Rep. Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA)
Co-Chair, Congressional Mental Health Caucus

Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA)
Co-Chair, Congressional Mental Health Caucus

Featured Speakers
Gwendolyn Keita, Ph.D.
Executive Director for Public Interest, American Psychological Association

Katie Corrigan
Co-Director, Workplace Flexibility 2010
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Law

Diane Halpern, Ph.D.
Director, Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College

Joseph Grzywacz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Donald W. Kemper, MPH
Chairman and CEO, Healthwise, Boise, Idaho

Shanny Peer, Ph.D.
Senior Associate, Families and Work Institute

David Gray
Director, Workforce and Family Program, New America Foundation